The future of province-wide standardized testing will be determined in consultation with parents, teachers and others in the system, says Ontario’s education minister in response to a report that recommends changes to the contentious literacy and numeracy evaluations given to students in four grades. The report, released online Tuesday, says that over the next several years, the government should “phase out” tests in Grade 3, as well as in Grade 9 math, “substantially modernize” Grade 6 assessments, and end but then reform the mandatory Grade 10 literacy test. It even suggests that in transforming testing by the Education Quality and Accountability Office, or EQAO, that the government consider “re-naming and re-launching the Crown agency” which has been a source of much frustration among teacher unions. Scroll down to answer a selection of sample questions from the Grade 10 literacy test“The province will work with education sector partners to move forward on the recommendations for strengthening classroom assessment and reporting,” said Education Minister Indira Naidoo-Harris in a written statement.

Source: thestar April 24, 2018 21:35 UTC