IDENTIFIERS Education for All Handicapped Children Act

Intended to help state level administrators plan for minimal competency testing programs; the guide discusses conceptual, legal, and budgeting considerations involved in competency programs fbr different handicapped populations. Problems and remedies are cited from a longitudinal study of the implementation of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Five chapters are designed to answer the following 4uestions (sample, findings in parentheses): Who should se?. test standards? (difficulties encountered when local school districts set standards); Who should be included in competency test programs? (legal requirements stating that decisions be made on an individual basis); What kinds of competency test should be used with handicapped students? (modification of test administration procedures rather than development of special tests for handicapped students); When should competency tests be administered? (use as a screening test for early detection of learningiprobleps); and What should graduation criteria be for-handicapped students? (use of differential standards). (CL) EC 142 785 *- Reproductions supplied by EDkS are the best that can be made * * from the original document.