Newsletter article
Academic Resilience in a Post-COVID World
EdCan e-newsletter, Vol.Fall 2021
29/09/2021
Abstract
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)...
Details
- Title
- Academic Resilience in a Post-COVID World
- Authors/Creators
- Louis Volante - Brock UniversityDon A. Klinger Professor - Murdoch University, Vice ChancelleryJoe M. Barrett
- Publication Details
- EdCan e-newsletter, Vol.Fall 2021
- Identifiers
- 991005614470007891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Vice Chancellery
- Resource Type
- Newsletter article
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