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Originally Posted by Slava
If they’re judging these scores by PAT, then we all know what the issue is. The tests don’t matter to the students. My son took one in grade 9 and I’m almost positive he just went AC/DC down the whole thing and called it a day. His mark was abysmal (in case anyone was curious about how that strategy could work for you!). But it’s irrelevant to him. The grade didn’t matter in his overall class marks. Pretty difficult to motivate kids once they realize that.
And things were that way through Covid with the no jeopardy exams also. I can’t be the only parent who saw otherwise good students somehow have final exam marks that were laughably pathetic. Granted these exams were taken under duress in the sense that I thought it was a good idea to get some exam-writing experience under their belt.
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I do wonder how much that might play in to these stats. There was a half-year there where nothing mattered.
There was also the transition to working/learning from home.
Some people had to scramble. I know I wound up buying a couple laptops and beefing up my wi-fi when that happened, but not everyone is that fortunate to be able to do that.
As was alluded to though, the report doesnt provide any sort of frame of reference which would allow conclusions to be drawn across jurisdictions.
"Well everyone dipped here, so we're pretty sure what that is..."