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Throughout the history of schooling in British Columbia, large‐scale student assessment outcomes have traditionally served to inform broader societal goals. Realistically, “assessment of”group learning (as opposed to classroom‐based “assessment for” individual learning) will continue as the government’s key focus. We also raise several unanswered questions such as the scope of assessment practices that include only numeracy and literacy or the achievement of elementary versus secondary students between 1976 and 1999, questions to move the decades‐old debate beyond its current stalemate.  \nKey words: history, education, testing, achievement  \nDepuis plus de 20 ans, pédagogues et administrateurs de tous les coins de l’Amérique du Nord débattent avec passion de la valeur des épreuves communes. Tout au long de l’histoire de l’éducation en Colombie‐Britannique, les résultats des épreuves communes ont servi à réaliser des objectifs sociaux plus vastes. En fait, l’évaluation des apprentissages d’un groupe (par opposition à l’évaluation de l’apprentissage dechacun au sein d’une classe) va demeurer une priorité pour le gouvernement. Les auteurs soulèvent en outre plusieurs questions laissées jusqu’ici sans réponse, telsl’éventail des pratiques d’évaluation portant seulement sur le calcul et la littératie ou le rendement scolaire des élèves du primaire comparé à celui des élèves du secondaire entre 1976 et 1999, autant de questions qui peuvent faire avancer le débat vieux de plusieurs décennies au‐delà de l’impasse actuelle.  \nMots clés : histoire, éducation, épreuves, réussite scolaire.  \n_________________  \nCANADIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION 29, 4 (2006): 1191‐1222  \nDuring the past two decades, education systems around the world have experienced unprecedented increases in reform initiatives (Calderhead, 2001; Holt, 2001; Massell, 1998), largely dependent upon large‐scale student assessment programs serving as the “vehicle of choice” for promoting accountability within public schools (Earl & Torrance, 2000, p. 114) . Some educators and researchers favour the use of large‐scale assessments, arguing that these tests can “enhance learning within and across systems of education”(Plomp & Loxley, 1994, p. 176) by enabling policy‐makers at all levels to assess their systems and to initiate reforms and policies based on the practices of higher achieving jurisdictions (cf. Beaton, Martin & Mullis, 1997; Schmidt & Burstein, 1993; Schmidt & McKnight, 1998; Stigler & Perry, 1998) .  \nOthers have opposed large‐scale testing practices, asserting that they have negatively impacted teachers and children in schools. Some researchers argue that increased large‐scale testing has narrowed the curriculum by overemphasizing performance in mathematics and reading, while marginalizing all other curricular subjects (Nichols & Berliner, 2005; Pedulla et al., 2003, Volante, 2004) . Still others contend that large‐scale assessments may encourage people to contemplate change, but insist that rarely do test results increase opportunities to implement reform (Firestone, Mayrowetz, & Fairman, 1998) . In 2002, for example, Amrein and Berliner (2002) found no evidence that high‐stakes testing led to improved test scores. More recently, Nichols, Glass and Berliner (2006) studied 25 American state‐wide accountability systems and discovered no relationship between early accountability pressure and later non‐ethnic cohort achievement in math and reading at the fourth and eighth grade levels. In the words of Clarke, Harris, and Reynolds (2004), “despite the dramatic increase in education reform efforts in most countries, their impact upon overall levels of student achievement” has not been “as successful as anticipated”(pp. 2‐3) .  \nCuriously, conte","cbCaiavTUh9h4dCz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiavTUh9h4dCz","pdf",368861,32,"English","# Introduction\n## Debates on large-scale assessment value\n# Research Questions\n## Origins and measurement methods (1876-present)\n## Purposes and long-term trends\n# Method\n## Archival sources and data collection","[{\"question\":\"Why has large-scale student assessment been debated in North America and specifically in British Columbia?\",\"answer\":\"Educators and administrators have debated its value for promoting accountability and for shaping learning outcomes. 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