What are the Key Features of this Program?
Three key features of the PASS/Mini PASS programs are appropriateness, flexibility and credibility.
The appropriateness of the programs is exhibited in their design which:
- meets the needs for independent/semi-independent study courses for use by middle and high school students
- allows students to progress at their own pace
- encourages parent involvement
- offers courses that can be taken for-full or partial credit
- making up deficiencies
- remediation
- meeting graduation or promotion requirements
- self improvement or enrichment
The flexibility of the PASS/Mini PASS programs is demonstrated by:
- service to one student or many
- student contacts in school, at home or in alternative programs
- scheduling frequency of student contacts as needed or practicable
- operating during the summer, school year or both
- being centrally or locally administered
The credibility of the programs is maintained through:
- a fairly uniform, sound, generic curriculum that also meets most the needs of individual districts and states
- assurance that student work and tests are professionally assigned and monitored
- complete and accurate student record keeping systems
- the professional integrity of state and local coordinators who ensure that course materials are used as intended
