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• Real Learning First, published by our Alberta Teachers' Assoociation, reflects the profession's view of student assessment.  To quote a man who was as wise as he was smart, "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts" (Albert Einstein).

   View our Association's Real Learning First website to (1) find out how the Alberta government’s testing and accountability program is undermining the creative and rich learning that occurs in our schools and (2) help promote a testing system that values meaningful assessment and genuine student learning.

 

• Assessing COLLAGE -- Cam Fahlman

 

• Report Card Comments -- Cam Fahlman 

   

•   Preparing Grade 12 ELA students for the Part B Reading Diploma Exam
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