In Canada, there is no federal ministry of education. This means that each of the ten provinces and three territories establishes its own policies related to curriculum and instruction, assessment and evaluation, and reporting of student learning progress […]
On December 5, 2023, Canadian provincial and territorial ministry of education personnel took part in a virtual roundtable on the topics of formative classroom and summative large-scale assessment. Many thanks to all participants, and a […]
Many innovative summative and formative provincial student assessment initiatives have been implemented across Canada over the past few years. In recent articles, I have described e-assessment programs and the value of large-scale assessments in Ontario […]
The purpose of this article is to describe British Columbia’s (B.C.’s) recent reform of its provincial student assessment program, including the transition to e-assessments, within the context of the Canadian large-scale assessment landscape and the […]
The purpose of this article is to provide a rationale for conducting large-scale, student assessments by identifying the benefits of conducting the assessments in an online format and illustrating their value to all levels of the education system […]
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