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Academic Resilience in a Post-COVID World
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Academic Resilience in a Post-COVID World

Louis Volante, Don A. Klinger Professor and Joe M. Barrett
EdCan e-newsletter, Vol.Fall 2021
29/09/2021
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The close coupling of content standards with standardized testing brought about by Margaret Thatcher’s U.K. government in the late 1980s ushered in a new form of school accountability that has become the dominant education reform model used by industrialized governments around the world (Volante, 2012). Student performance on large-scale assessment measures are intended to hold school administrators and teachers accountable while also providing the “data” to spur system and school-level improvements. Indeed, every single Canadian province and territory administers and reports achievement in relation to these external provincial measures and also participates in varying degrees in prominent international tests such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Programme in International Student Assessment (PISA)...

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