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Peterson, Shelley Stagg; McClay, Jill – Assessing Writing, 2010
This paper reports on the feedback and assessment practices of Canadian grades 4-8 teachers; the data are drawn from a national study of the teaching of writing at the middle grades in all ten Canadian provinces and two (of three) territories. Respondents were 216 grades 4-8 teachers from rural and urban schools. Data sources were audio-recorded…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Urban Schools, Writing Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Childs, Ruth A.; Umezawa, Linda – Canadian Journal of Education, 2009
This study investigates what grade-3 teachers say they would do if faced with common test administration dilemmas--and why. Grade-3 teachers with experience administering Ontario's provincially mandated assessment were recruited through professional association newsletters and Toronto-area newspapers. They responded to an on-line questionnaire (n…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Testing, Supervision
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Usman, Lantana M. – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2012
In Canadian public primary schools, newcomer West African refugees like other ethnic immigrant students are a visible minority group, often referred as Linguistic and Culturally Different (LCD) students. In the province of British Columbia, newcomer immigrant students are subjected to a battery of tests, as soon as they enroll in the primary…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Ethnography, Communication Disorders, Foreign Countries
Menefee, Trey; Bray, Mark – Online Submission, 2012
This report was produced for the 2012 Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers meeting in Mauritius. Its main purpose is to track the historical progress and likelihood of attainment of Education For All and education-specific Millennium Development Goals while also critically reviewing the methods used to track this progress. The analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Development
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Ross, John A.; Scott, Garth; Sibbald, Timothy M. – Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The authors conducted a third-party study of the student achievement effects of Struggling Schools, a user-generated approach to Comprehensive School Reform (CSR). The design was a quasiexperimental, pre-post matched sample (N = 180) with school as unit of analysis, drawing on 3 years of achievement data from standardized external assessments.…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Case Studies
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Hughes, Kathleen; Coplan, Robert J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2010
The goal of the current study was to explore the relations between shyness, academic engagement, and academic achievement in childhood. Participants were (n = 125) children (aged 9-13 years) attending public school boards in Canada. Children completed self reports of shyness and were administered a test of nonverbal IQ. Academic achievement was…
Descriptors: Shyness, Reading Comprehension, Student Participation, Standardized Tests
Laurie, Robert – Education Canada, 2009
The practice of handing out excellent grades to students who don't deserve them (grade inflation) is not a new phenomenon. Indeed grade inflation is among the oldest and most difficult issues to address in higher education. The author first studied the impact of grade inflation on student performance on standardized tests at the high school level…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Corbett, Michael – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2008
This essay is a critical reflection on educational standardization, particularly the standardization of assessment flowing down from major international assessment projects like the OECD's Project for International Student Assessment to national and sub-national school systems. I argue that the establishment of an increasingly uniform metric to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Criticism, Educational Assessment, Standardized Tests
Carey, Kevin – Education Canada, 2009
Almost nobody, it seems, disputes the importance of effective teachers--including teachers themselves. However, principals actually do none of the things they do when they value something as highly as most people say they value good teachers. By looking at scores on year-end standardized tests by teachers, principals think they have a pretty good…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Standardized Tests, Teacher Surveys, Educational Change
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Nowakowski, Matilda E.; Cunningham, Charles E.; McHolm, Angela E.; Evans, Mary Ann; Edison, Shannon; St. Pierre, Jeff; Boyle, Michael H.; Schmidt, Louis A. – Infant and Child Development, 2009
We examined receptive language and academic abilities in children with selective mutism (SM; n = 30; M age = 8.8 years), anxiety disorders (n = 46; M age = 9.3 years), and community controls (n = 27; M age = 7.8 years). Receptive language and academic abilities were assessed using standardized tests completed in the laboratory. We found a…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Standardized Tests, Receptive Language, Academic Ability
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Geoffroy, Marie-Claude; Cote, Sylvana. M.; Giguere, Charles-Edouard; Dionne, Ginette; Zelazo, Philip David; Tremblay, Richard E.; Boivin, Michel; Seguin, Jean. R. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2010
Background: Socially disadvantaged children with academic difficulties at school entry are at increased risk for poor health and psychosocial outcomes. Our objective is to test the possibility that participation in childcare--at the population level--could attenuate the gap in academic readiness and achievement between children with and without a…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Mothers, Educational Attainment, Disadvantaged Youth
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Malone, Margaret E. – Language Testing, 2010
This article presents a review of the Canadian Academic English Language (CAEL) Assessment, a high stakes standardized test of the English language. It is a topic-based test that integrates listening, reading, writing and speaking. The test is designed to describe the level of English language proficiency of test takers planning to study at…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Language Tests, Standardized Tests, Test Validity
Oesterle, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2015
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Time Management, Mathematics Instruction, Industry
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2009
A fundamental goal of teachers in public schools in British Columbia (BC) is to ensure all students of every age, through the principle of continuous learning, have an equal opportunity to develop their full capacity for artistic, cultural, emotional, intellectual, and physical growth. BC public school teachers believe that the primary purpose of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Student Evaluation, Educational Opportunities
Froese-Germain, Bernie – Canadian Teachers' Federation (NJ1), 2010
Large-scale assessment regularly takes place in most jurisdictions across Canada, a fact not lost on the Fraser Institute and other right wing think tanks such as AIMS (Atlantic Institute for Market Studies) which use the test results as the primary basis for compiling school rankings at both the elementary and secondary level (see Gutstein,…
Descriptors: Test Results, Academic Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Educational Indicators
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