Provincial Assessment Program

Provincial assessment programming falls into four categories:

Grade 3 Assessment in Reading, Lecture and Numeracy and Grade 4 Assessment in French Immersion Lecture

Assessment of students early in the school year in competencies in reading and numeracy
Results used to communicate to parents and to support instruction at the student, classroom, school, school division and provincial levels

Middle Years Assessment of Key Competencies in Mathematics, Reading Comprehension, Expository Writing, and Student Engagement

Classroom-based, formative (assessment for and as learning) assessment of students in student engagement, number skills, number sense, expository writing and reading comprehension
Assessment (for, as) process used to engage students in their learning
Summative results based on achievement as of the last two weeks of January used to communicate to parents and to the Department, and to support learning

Grade 12 Standards tests in language arts and mathematics

Curriculum-based assessments developed by teachers in collaboration with the Department,
Administered at the end of each semester
Marked locally by teachers according to marking guidelines and training offered by the Department
Tests count for 30% of students’ final marks

Participation in national and international assessment