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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Does Ontario Have an Achievement Gap? The Challenge of Comparing the Performance of Students in French- and English-Language Schools on National and International Assessments
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Childs, Ruth; Denomme, Francine – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2008
On national and international assessments, students attending French-language schools in Ontario usually perform worse than students attending English-language schools. Interpreting these results is challenging because the French- and English-language schools differ both in prescribed curriculum and in how the curriculum is taught. In addition,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Student Evaluation, French
What Parents Know and Believe about Large-Scale Assessments
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Mu, Ming; Childs, Ruth – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2005
Most provinces and states that require students to take large-scale assessments provide information about the tests for parents; however, parents vary in their uses of this information. In this study, parents in an urban Ontario elementary school were surveyed about where they obtained information about the Ontario assessments, what they knew…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Disabilities, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries