{"id":549,"date":"2012-11-29T11:59:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/?p=549"},"modified":"2012-11-29T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:59:17","slug":"standardized-testing-in-canada-real-accountability-or-an-illusion-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2012\/11\/29\/standardized-testing-in-canada-real-accountability-or-an-illusion-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Standardized Testing in Canada: Real Accountability or an Illusion of Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actioncanada.ca\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Action Canada<\/a> public dialogue taking place Friday, November 30th, from 8:00am to 9:30am. Moderated by Tom Clark (Chief Political Correspondent and Host of Global TV \u2018s The West Block), the theme we will be exploring is:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Standardized Testing in Canada: Real Accountability or an Illusion of Success?<\/h3>\n<p>Focusing on British Columbia\u2019s K-12 education systems, our guest speakers for this session include Peter Cowley (Senior Vice-President Operations and Director of School Performance Studies, The Fraser Institute), April Lowe (Grade 3 Teacher, Garibaldi Highlands Elementary School), and Joel Westheimer (University Research Chair, Sociology of Education, University of Ottawa).<\/p>\n<p>This event will take place in the Asia Pacific Hall of Vancouver\u2019s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue (580 West Hastings Street). Following this session will be two more dialogues hosted by other Action Canada Task Forces: \u201cTeaching Questions Not Answers\u201d (at 9:30am) and \u201cWho Cares about Young Caregivers (at 11:00am).<\/p>\n<p>This event is free, but registration is required: <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouverpublicdialogue2012.eventbrite.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Public Dialogue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>-S\u00e9bastien Despr\u00e9s and the Action Canada Task Force on Standardized Testing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Action Canada public dialogue taking place Friday, November 30th, from 8:00am to 9:30am. Moderated by Tom Clark (Chief Political Correspondent and Host of Global TV \u2018s The West Block), the theme we will be exploring is: \u00a0Standardized Testing in Canada: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2012\/11\/29\/standardized-testing-in-canada-real-accountability-or-an-illusion-of-success\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[490688,2262,364,148],"tags":[1032,1063374,1063358],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-2","category-k-12-issues","category-research","category-testing","tag-conferences","tag-k-12-issues","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}