Results from provincial tests in reading, writing and math suggest that more than two-thirds of B.C. students in Grades 4 and 7 are meeting or exceeding educational expectations, Education Minister Shirley Bond said Friday.
"There is still more work to be done to ensure that all students meet these expectations," she said while releasing the 2008 results from the tests, known as the Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA).
Girls continue to outperform boys in all subjects and non-aboriginal students do better than aboriginal students, the release says. More students participated in the FSA this year than last, despite a vigourous campaign by the B.C. Teachers' Federation (BCTF) encouraging parents to withdraw their students.
The union opposes the tests because teachers say they cause unnecessary stress for students and do not contribute to learning. As well, they don't like the tests because the Fraser Institute uses the results every year to rank elementary schools.
"While I am very encouraged that more students wrote the FSA this year, the results confirm what we have said all along - we have work to do," Bond says in the release. "The focus now is to work with districts to help individual students."
This year's tests were administered in February and individual results were sent to parents in March.
Results for individual schools and districts are available at www.bced.gov.bc.ca/reporting/achieve/fsa-bas.php
Source: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=0765cab4-5b6a-4cfe-91ed-032aa9fb983e
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