One in four Ontario postsecondary students lacks basic literacy, numeracy skills, studies say

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. One in four Ontario postsecondary students lacks basic literacy, numeracy skills, studies say
Joe Friesen, Globe and Mail, 2018/11/29
Given that Ontario students rank among the very top in international testing, I greet this attention-grabbing headline with a great deal of scepticism. To me it has all the makings of a manufactured crisis. The article makes it clear that the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario is working with a revised definition of literacy. "The test was not measuring whether students can read or do arithmetic, but whether they can take written or numerical information and use it to solve problems." Here's the report: 74 page PDF. More...