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by Stephanie Wiebe

Who is more likely to get a better science education, a 13-year- old British Columbia student or a 13-year-old student in Korea?

The child in B.C., according to statistics.

What about math? How are our

“children doing in school mathe- matics, compared to students learn- _

ing in the United Kingdom? Again, B.C. students come out ahead. How do we know this? The Inter- national Assessment of Educational Progress tells us so.

Through the past few weeks, selected students from three schools in School District #88 have been participating in LAEP testing for math and science skills. Nine- and 13-year-olds from Thornhill Efementary, Veritas, and Thornhill! Secondary were among the 231 schools randomly selected for study throughout the province. The students completed a test of basic math and science skills, along with some educational research questions about non- school factors: hours spent watch- ing television, amounts of home- work per week, and weekly read- ing time. Some of the students participated in laboratory science work, and 13-year-olds will com- plete an experimental geography assessment.

This is the second assessment. The first was conducted in 1988. The test summaries will be com- pared on a province-by-province basis (nine provinces), and then compiled for Canada’s comparison against 19 other countries. Our students will compare with those of China, France, Italy, Ireland, ‘Korea, the Soviet Union, Spain and the United States, to name a few.

Gerald Morton from the Com- munications branch of British Columbia’s Ministry of Education said, "It’s really important that we know how we’re keeping up ... on

Mrs. Geri Mantel

CENTENNIAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ADDITION OF GRADE 9

We are pleased to announce that Centennial Christian School is now accepting applica- tions for Grade 9, which is being planned for the school year 1991/92. Enrollment in Grade 9 is limited — please submit your application early. Applications for Kindergarten through Grade 8 may also be considered.

For further information, please contact: Centennial Christian School Mr. Frank Voogd, Principal

We invite you to attend our Open House on Thursday, April 25, 1991 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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a global level.” Morton says that British Columbia’s performance in out, we do very well." Results and ment will be made available in

the sample students and tests are the last assessment. "As it turns summaries from this year’s assess- early 1992,

Schools get into the spirit for International Potluck Dinner

carefully monitored to ensure comparability of results, and the committee is precise in their lan- guage translations. But Morton says, "Physics is physics, no mat- ter the language."

Testing is designed by an inter- national committee, and conducted in the selected schools. Individual students, schools or districts will not be evaluated in the anonymous assessment, but rather the province as a unit. The assessment sum- maries and comparisons could influence our children’s education in the future. “It’s a very infor- mative assessment tool. It could have consequences affecting what we teach," said Morton.

Morton was impressed with

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Terrace Multicultural Association representative Gia Hedberg has organized local school students to participate in the preparation of decorations for the International Potluck Dinner to be held on April 6th in the Arena Banquet Room.

Each primary and elementary

school has chosen to make maps of different countries. To cach map, they have added drawings or pictures of residents of that coun- try in their national dress, or likenesses of animals, birds, and flowers native to the country. In addition to this project, Cassie Hall made the papier m&ché forms for pifiatas being decorated for the

potluck dinner. Thornhill Elemen- tary School has made application to Foster Parents Plan to foster a child in Haiti. They have already begun rising money, and presently have enough for payments until September 1991. Thornhill Junior Secondary made masks. Clarence Michiel is building pyramids and drawing and painting posters.

Canadian Parents for French of Terrace, represented here by Joan Norman, recently donated $1,000 from their bingo proceeds to the Kiti Kshan Primary School library for the purchase of books for French immersion students. Admiring some of the new texts are Grade 2 students Mike Watts and Tyler Leblonde, in company with principal Dawn Martin.

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