Literacy program will measure COVID’s impact on young students’ learning
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A new program for the youngest students will help measure how student learning is being affected by classroom disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The provincial government will work with University of Alberta professor George Georgiou to support a voluntary program that focuses on reading deficits among Kindergarten to Grade 3 students across the province.
“We know COVID-19 is having an impact on student learning. The first step is to find out what the impacts are,” says Adriana LaGrange, minister of education. “These assessments will help us understand how to better support student success in the classroom during these crucial early years, and address learning gaps that were created from the pandemic.”
The government will work with school authorities that volunteer to run the program and results will be shared with school authorities. Classrooms participating in this program will be provided with a short training video to help teachers prepare, as well as access to additional staffing to support administering the test.
