This book examines the history of standardized testing in Ontario leading to the current context and its impact on racialized identities, particularly on Grade 3 students, parents, and educators.
Ardavan Eizadirad holds a PhD from the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is an educator with the Toronto District School Board and a community activist with non-profit organizations Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Character Education in the Jane and Finch community and Amadeusz in Toronto, Canada.
Innehållsförteckning
1. My Spiritual Journey as an Educator.- 2. Elementary Standardized Testing on the Bubble: To Eliminate or Maintain?.- 3. Royal Commission on Learning and the Birth of EQAO and the Accountability Movement in Ontario.- 4. Inequality of Opportunity: Experiences of Racialized and Minoritized Students.- 5. Symbiotic Relationship Between Curriculum, Tyler Rationale, and EQAO Standardized Testing.- 6. EQAO Results and School Rankings.- 7. Understanding the Research Approach and the Data.- 8. Invisible Scars and Traumatizing Effects of Standardized Testing: Voices of Grade 3 Children, Parents, and Educators.- 9. External Assessment as Stereotyping.- 10. Decolonizing Educational Assessment Models.