student performance

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Student assessments can help kids succeed—but it depends where you liveStudent assessments can help kids succeed—but it depends where you live

During the pandemic, most provinces suspended their testing programs.


8:51AM
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Class size caps would likely hurt—not help—Ontario schools

The proposal includes a hard cap of 20 students in all classrooms and 10,000 new teachers.


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B.C. government should revitalize standardized testing in schools

Students in the province now write numeracy and literacy assessments that don’t count towards their final marks.


4:30AM
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P.E.I. demonstrates value of standardized testing in schools
The province's students, who used to score at the bottom, now score at the Canadian average.

9:23AM
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Alberta government should revitalize standardized testing
The province's Grade 12 exams used to be worth 50 per cent of a student’s final grade compared to 10 per cent this school year.

9:16AM
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Provincial governments should strengthen—not weaken—standardized testing in schools

Today's tests place less emphasis on subject-specific knowledge than they once did.


8:24AM
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Eight in 10 Ontario parents support standardized testing—the teacher unions don’t

Ontario closed schools for 20 weeks between March 2020 and May 2021.


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60% of Grade 10 students in B.C. not proficient in math

Standardized tests measure student academic progress—but also help measure teacher performance.