What is the easiest way for our students to succeed? Increase their scores without being certain that this result is accurate. In a post on Iowa, I said we often confuse perseverance, success and dropout. And it was also necessary to question the value of this "success." In Quebec, certainly we are falling into this mirror illusions.
The Press this morning shows us that success for some policy makers through the comparison with other schools and increased pressure on teachers to ensure that more students pass. It does not add resources to help struggling students. No, we add assistants to verify the results of groups and we buy software to make comparisons between CS and schools. In fact, a journalist discovers the least bit curious that whenever MELS added responsibilities to CS, their first instinct is to hire new personnel in completing the paperwork.
Why such pressure? Because Act 88 requires CS to respect signed partnership agreements with MELS that provide targets for academic achievement and that schools sign, in turn, management agreements with the same CS for the same goals.
This increase results, MELS the practice itself with the reviews they correct. Thus, in Secondary V French, it determines the criteria for correction while checking through mathematical models that they will achieve a certain success rate, it usually moderates student achievement on the rise when they appear to him not too (correction: too low).
We do not want students to learn, we want them to succeed. Nuance.
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