Large-Scale Assessment Outcomes in British Columbia, 1876-1999

Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). 260 Dalhousie Street Suite 204, Ottawa, ON K1N 7E4, Canada. Tel: 613-241-0018; Fax: 613-241-0019; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.csse.ca/CJE/General.htm

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Foreign Countries; Student Evaluation; Measurement; Academic Achievement; Testing; Public Schools; Educational Change; Educational History; Accountability; Intelligence Quotient

Canada; North America

0380-2361

For over 20 years, educators and administrators across North America have heatedly debated the value of large-scale student assessment. Throughout the history of schooling in British Columbia, large-scale student assessment outcomes have traditionally served to inform broader societal goals. Realistically, "assessment of" group learning (as opposed to classroom-based "assessment for" individual learning) will continue as the government's key focus. We also raise several unanswered questions such as the scope of assessment practices that include only numeracy and literacy or the achievement of elementary versus secondary students between 1976 and 1999, questions to move the decades-old debate beyond its current stalemate. (Contains 7 notes.)

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2007

EJ766909