Associate Professor of Leadership and Educational Change, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Louis Volante receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities ...

College students and high-school students preparing to enter college are sorely lacking in the skills needed to retrieve, analyze, and communicate information that is available online, according to ...

The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...

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Changes to the state literacy standards this year has been causing some anxiety among teachers and administrators, especially now that annual testing season is upon them. Gwen Walz, assessment ...

It’ll be no more pencils and no more work books for those students who choose to take their Grade 10 Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test online. For the first time online testing, which will count ...

Despite concerted efforts to improve literacy for more than a decade, boys continue to lag significantly behind girls in results on the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. The Greater Essex County ...

There’s a lot of debate these days about how to define “technology literacy,” but in a couple years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress will take the unusual step of testing students in ...

The Ontario government is denying rumours it plans to axe Grade 3 testing and eliminate requirements for Grade 10 students to pass a literacy test to graduate high school. There’s been persistent ...