student testing

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‘Grade inflation’ gives students false sense of their academic abilities

We do students no favours when we give them marks they don’t really deserve.


4:00AM
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More money hasn’t improved B.C. schools

Operational spending is comprised mainly of salaries and benefits for teachers.


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Simply throwing more money at schools will not increase student test scores

The two highest-spending provinces had significantly lower test scores than the lowest-spending province.


8:30AM
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Students pay price for collapse of testing in B.C. schools

Less than half of the province's Grade 10 students are proficient in numeracy.


9:53AM
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BCTF assault on student testing out-of-step with most B.C. parents

International tests show B.C. student achievement has dropped in recent years, especially in math.


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Student performance on the wane in B.C.

The more students know about a topic, the more likely they’ll be able to understand what they read.