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The various tools through which student literacy achievement data was collected or against which student performance was measured included:
• PM Benchmarks
• Comprehension Attitude Strategies Interests (CASI)
• Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)
• Oral Language Assessment
• The Observation Survey
• Pre-Referral Intervention Manual (PRIM)
• Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) testing
• Brigance inventories and screens
• Ontario Writing Assessment (OWA)
• Canadian Achievement Tests (CAT•4)
• Culminating Performance Tasks (CPT)
• teacher-created assessments, samples from “marker” students,
diagnostic and culminating tasks
Assessment, evaluation, and reporting in Ontario schools is based on the policies and practices described in Growing Success, which is available at www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/policyfunding/success.html.
Resources have been developed for educators in Ontario to support the application of policies outlined in Growing Success. These resources provide practical classroom strategies, developed by educators from a variety of sectors and boards across the province, for combining and applying
sound policy and research-based practices. They can be accessed at www.edugains.ca/newsite/aer2/index.html.
Educators in Ontario are increasingly using a promising approach called pedagogical documentation as an assessment for and as learning strategy in the classroom. The strategy involves the ongoing gathering of a wide range of forms of evidence – observational notes, videos, photos – documenting how a student thinks and learns. For more information, go to www.edugains.ca/ resourcesLNS/Monographs/CapacityBuildingSeries/CBS_Pedagogical.pdf.