Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That is a tool, at the moment, to use for assessment of students, Mr. Speaker. As I mentioned, we are working on a number of areas to improve the system and it allowed us to identify, once we had the two directives in place. We needed to do that as first step. In 2001, we introduced the last student assessment and achievement directive. In addition to that, Mr. Speaker, I should point out that we have been concerned about student achievement and the bottleneck that is created at Grade 10 for example. What we've done in the early childhood development program is to introduce a school improvement program, where we're doing more counseling and effective behaviour support programs. We also addressed the class sizes, student support needs and so forth. Strengthening the role of the parent in the community is another area that we want to work heavily on. There are a number of those kinds of things that we are working on, Mr. Speaker, to address the whole area of student success in our schools. Thank you.
Jake Ootes on Further To Question 143-14(6): Achievement Of Grade Levels In NWT Schools
In the Legislative Assembly on March 4th, 2003. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 143-14(6): Achievement Of Grade Levels In Nwt Schools
Further To Question 143-14(6): Achievement Of Grade Levels In NWT Schools
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 3rd, 2003
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