International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement | IEA [Abbr.]

backwardness at school [ remedial class | remedial teaching ]

dropout [ dropping out | early school leaver | early school leaving | educational dropout | school dropout | student dropout | university dropout | school leavers(UNBIS) ]

education counsellor | training adviser | educational counsellor | school counsellor

school bus aide | school bus chief attendant | school bus attendant | school bus transportation assistant

primary school manager | secondary school manager | executive headteacher | headteacher

school attendance [ absence from school | attendance at school | class attendance | school absence | truancy ]

early school leaving rate | ESL rate

educational wastage

(Return tabled) Question No. 422 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to nutrition in child and adolescent populations in Canada: (a) does government policy include recognition and acceptance of the principle that Canada’s children and adolescents are entitled to nutritious food (i) regardless of where they live, (ii) regardless of their family income, (iii) particularly when economic forces undermine efforts by parents and caregivers to ensure healthy eating; (b) given that the 1992 World Declaration on Nutrition, to which Canada was a signatory, states that access to nutritionally adequate and safe food is a right of each individual, what ...[+++]specific actions have the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Health Canada undertaken for children and adolescents in order to fulfill this commitment; (c) what percentage of children and adolescents in Canada is food insecure, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (d) what percentage of children and adolescents lives below the poverty line, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (e) what percentage of children and adolescents has, as a result of living below the poverty line, (i) poor nutritional status, (ii) poor health outcomes due to their poor nutritional status; (f) what percentage of members of each of the following groups is food insecure, (i) child and adolescent newcomers, (ii) children and adolescents who live in poverty, (iii) children and adolescents who live in priority neighbourhoods, (iv) Aboriginal children and adolescents; (g) what percentage of children and adolescents (i) involuntarily misses meals, (ii) lacks healthy variety in its diet; (h) does the government have information, and, if so, what is that information, concerning (i) how (g)(i) and (g)(ii) impact the caloric a ...

The Recommendation encourages all those involved in the school system (teachers, pupils, parents and specialists) to take part in the processes of self-assessment and external assessment. It states that the aim of external assessment is to provide both methodological support for school self-evaluation and an objective view of the school.

The aim of this Recommendation is to increase cooperation at European level in the field of quality assessment of school education while maintaining plurality.

Qualitative assessment of school education