Grade 3 Provincial Assessment

I attended a professional development session on the Grade 3 Provincial Assessment. The workshop provided our school team of Grade 3 teachers with new information and understandings as to the importance of this assessment practice. Our team concluded that the Grade 3 Provincial Assessment is a guide for instructional planning, identifies strengths/needs, classroom based assessment, a communication tool, evidence is triangulated, purposeful and gives time to plan/teach, assessment of beginning of Gr. 3 outcomes, snapshot at the end of October, and is not a standards test, a time to teach to the test, something to use at the start of the year and then forget about it.