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Direct linkCheng, Liying; Fox, Janna; Zheng, Ying – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2007
The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) is a cross-curricular literacy test issued to all secondary school students in the province of Ontario. The test consists of a reading and a writing component, both of which must be successfully completed for secondary school graduation in Ontario. This study elicited 16 first language and second…
Descriptors: Graduation Requirements, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Inferences
Fox, Janna; Cheng, Liying – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2007
Within the context of increasing numbers of second language (L2) learners in Canadian schools and expanding standards-driven testing frameworks, a passing score on the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) is a recently imposed secondary school graduation requirement in Ontario. There is evidence, however, that tests designed on the basis…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Inferences
