Word: mect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MECT attempts to measure the basic skills of prospective teachers by testing candidates in three subject areas over an eight-hour period: writing, reading and a subject area of their choosing...
Though passing percentages for the July, October and January tests have risen, educators and prospective teachers still worried that the MECT is not adequately testing their skills--and that it has become a political tool...
...team--educational writer Anne Wheelock,Boston College Professor Walter Haney and SalemState Professor Clarke Fowler--published a reportcritiquing the MECT as unreliable, citing a highmargin of error, a huge variance between readingand writing scores and test administrationtroubles...
...Fowler says it is the MECT specifically,and not testing as a concept, that he objects...
...strange series of events, politics andeducation coalesced to produce the April versionof the MECT...