Debate over efficacy of FSA tests continue
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PRINCE GEORGE — With every school year comes testing and for kids in Grades 4 and 7 in B.C., they have to take the FSA, also known as the Foundation Skills Assessment. Students right across the province are in the middle of FSA testing, just one of many standardized tests that are taken by students every year.
The province says that the FSA provides parents, teachers, schools, school districts and the Ministry of Education with important information on how well students are progressing in the foundation skills of Literacy and Numeracy. The Fraser institute champions FSA’s and uses them in their annual school rankings and report cards.
“The school rankings, the school report cards that we at the Fraser Institute put out are really just a way of making the FSA province wide test results clear and understandable to parents and teachers and school administrators and other stakeholders in the education world.” – Paige MacPherson, Associate Director, Education Policy, Fraser Institute
