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Ford Gov. Now Looking For Private Companies to Test ONT Teachers’ Grade 3 Math Skills

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Doug Ford’s Government is Now Looking For Private Companies to Test Ontario Teachers’ Grade 3 Math Skills

Government of Ontario offers multi-year contract to administer online quiz testing ‘grades 3 to 9’ math skills – except the test is for teachers

February 6, 2020

At the same time as Doug Ford’s government is fighting with teachers over a plan to eliminate thousands of teacher jobs and replace them with cheap online courses, Ford’s government is also interested in making teachers take an online math test to prove they’re smarter than a third grader.

Now it turns out one lucky company will be getting very rich on the taxpayers’ dime running math tests quizzing teachers on questions designed for children.

Ontario’s Ministry of Education recently posted a contract tender that appears to be looking for a private eLearning company to administer math tests for teachers.

The tender, titled “Administration of the Mathematics Proficiency Test,” was posted on January 23 with an April 1 start date. The posting says that the successful bidder will report to the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO).


Tender

The project is categorized under “educational technology” and its scope of work notes the vendor will need to “offer broad provincial access to the test, particularly to candidates residing in remote geographical locations.”

According to a ministry website, the math tests will require an Internet browser, suggesting the government would likely award the contract to a company that specializes in eLearning services.

Ontario’s Ministry of Education did not respond to requests from PressProgress asking for more details about the tender, including what the estimated dollar value of the contract is worth.

The tender lists no information in a section titled “estimated value of contract.”

The tender links to the website “mathproficiencytest.ca,” which explains that the test will involve “multiple-choice type questions” on mathematics content sourced from “grades 3 to 9” of the Ontario math curriculum.


Math Proficiency Test

Experts say the tests are a.waste of both time and money.

Ford has repeatedly claimed Ontario “teachers can’t pass the same Grade 6 math test that they’re giving the students.”

In the Ontario Legislature, Ford claimed“one-third of teachers at teachers’ college have failed grade 6 and grade 7 math.” Another time, Ford suggested: “Maybe the teachers should focus on learning math themselves.”

According to a fact-check by the Ottawa Citizen, the only apparent source that backs up Ford’s claim is an old news storythat reported one-third of new students entering one Ontario teacher college scored below 70% on an EQAO test.

Ford’s equation appears flawed since it fails to note student teachers receive math training in teacher’s college and high school math teachers require university-level qualifications in their teaching area anyway.

Even the EQAO, the organization overseeing the math test, admits the test will do nothing to help teachers or improve student math scores.

Liz Stuart, President of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association, noted “the agency supposedly responsible for the test, has found that these methods fail in their ostensible goal of boosting student achievement.”

“The fact that the government now appears to be seeking a private contractor to administer the test is just further evidence of how far they have strayed from their responsibility to protect and enhance public services,” Stuart told PressProgress.

The ministry did not respond when asked why it was moving to sign contracts with a private testing company before it secured contracts with Ontario’s teachers.

Ford’s aggressive and inexplicable move to push forward with mandatory eLearning has raised unanswered questions about the cozy relationship between Ford’s government and private eLearning companies.

Last year, Ontario guidance councillors reported they were being contacted by PricewaterhouseCoopers who told them they were conducting research into the “online education market in Ontario” on behalf of a secret client.

https://pressprogress.ca/doug-fords-government-is-now-looking-for-private-companies-to-test-ontario-teachers-grade-3-math-skills/
 

Boober69

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Best thing they could do.
And predictably, I think we will all be horrified by the results.
 
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