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Worrying Trends in BC’s Testing of Grade 10 Students

Worrying Trends in BC’s Testing of Grade 10 Students

Summary

  • Only 52 percent of BC grade 10 students completed the grade 10 Literacy Assessment in 2019/20.
  • Only 47 percent of BC grade 10 students completed the grade 10 Numeracy Assessment in 2019/20.
  • Of those students who completed the grade 10 Literacy Assessment, 74 percent were proficient or above.
  • Of those students who completed the grade 10 Numeracy Assessment, only 40 percent were proficient or above.
  • Only 17 schools saw 90 percent or more students complete the grade 10 Literacy and Numeracy Assessments.
  • COVID-19 related school closures, a push from the BC Teachers Federation for parents to pull their children from standardized testing, and a significant change to the nature of student testing in BC may have all contributed to the gap in testing data.

Author(s):
Paige MacPherson
Joel Emes

Source URL (modified on 02/24/2022 - 15:14): https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/worrying-trends-in-bcs-testing-of-grade-10-students?language=en