Given that education is a provincial/territorial responsibility in Canada, there is a great deal of interest in reporting on the policy similarities and differences across the provinces, by the language of the school systems (French and English), as well as by type of school (public and private).1 1 In the PISA context, “a public school is managed directly or indirectly by a public education auth. [...] At the same time, they, along with the other Atlantic provinces, identified the role of regional/local education authorities in the student admissions process at a rate much higher than that in the other provinces (the responses in the four Atlantic provinces ranged from 57 to 72 percent, compared to the Canadian average of 43 percent). [...] The pattern of responses was generally similar for school type — the responses of private school principals were similar to those of principals in the public system with respect to the role of principals, teachers, and the provincial education authority regarding responsibility for course offerings. [...] Principals in three western provinces — Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta — were less likely than their colleagues in the other provinces to select any of the options for the use of standardized tests that were provided in the school questionnaire. [...] 6 Internal school evaluation is a process controlled by the school, in which the school defines the areas to be judged, and the evaluation may be conducted by members of the school or by persons/institutions commissioned by the school (OECD, 2016, p.
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