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Educational Testing: The Canadian Experience with Standards, Examinations, and Assessments. Report to Congressional Requesters.

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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Program Evaluation and Methodology Div. – 1993

The experience of the Canadian provinces with large-scale testing programs is reviewed to suggest answers to questions currently discussed in the United States regarding the proposed national system of achievement testing. In the Canadian provinces, tests are linked to provincial curricula. Standards and assessments are not set by experts with no…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing