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Originally Posted by kootenayguy9
Diploma Exams are only administered to students taking particular courses. You only need to take SS 33 and English 30-2 to actually graduate but many students take more diploma level courses than that.
People also need to realize that as a parent you have a choice on whether your grade 3, grade 6 and grade 9 student even writes the achivement tests.
In the last rankings of Alberta High School three of the top twenty schools were from the CBE and none were from the Catholic Board.
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You can go back and forth all you want about ways that tests can be schewed, but in the end you're just chasing your tail as all you are doing is pointing out what teachers from both boards could be doing. Untill you can show me any sort of evidence that this is happening in the CSSB and not in the CBE it is completely irrelvant.
I'll tell you what though, I'll go ahead and concede that there is a higher incidence of teachers intentionally weeding kids out of higher level courses, and parents choosing not to have their children write the achievement tests, and that is the reason the CSSB scores is higher.
In exchange though I'd like you to concede that it is possible that teachers may be outright helping their students cheat on these tests and that is why the CBE results are not 10% lower.
See where I'm coming from, just because you can conceive of a reason why a school's test marks might be higher does not mean there is any reason to conclude it is true. Hence COMPLETELY INVALID. Or as it's known in the parlance of philosphy, an argument of ignorance.
As for which schools were in the top 20, big deal, three schools do not make or break a school board. The facts remain that on average the CSSB has out performend the CBE on the Alberta government's standardized testing.
If I was a real jerk, I might point out that perhaps the reason the CBE does worse is because there is at least one person working there who doesn't understand how averages work, but again doing so would certainly constitute an arguement of ignorance, so I won't.