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Educational assessment in Canada
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This article describes the Canadian education system and provincial/territorial, national, and international large‐scale assessment (LSA) programmes that currently operate within this large multicultural country. We highlight the policy implications of LSA programmes within Canada’s 10 provinces and three northern territories, and how the country balances international pressures with the demand for independence in the educational practices of its distinct provinces and territories. The discussion outlines how the systematic use of performance information is institutionalised through two kinds of accountability, ethical‐professional and economic‐bureaucratic accountability.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Volante, L., & Ben Jaafar, S.
- Affiliations
- Brock University (CA)
- Aporia Consulting
- Corresponding author
- Volante, Louis
- ORCID
- Volante, Louis
- Venue
- Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2008-07
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 201-210
- ISSN
- 0969-594X (ISSN-L)
- 1465-329X
- OpenAlex
- W2026041656
- Cited by
- 67
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 23.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice (publishedVersion)
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (Québec government) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Brock University
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Social Sciences › Education › Educational Assessment and Improvement
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Education and Public Policy
- Keywords
- large-scale assessment, educational assessment, Canadian education system, provincial education policy, international assessment, educational accountability, performance information, multicultural education
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