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If you have questions or suggestions for your district or school, or for content or design of Adminfo reports and binders, please contact Dr. John Taylor:

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Last updated: January 2025

Products

Since 1993, Adminfo Resources Inc. has developed an annual series of reports and binders of BC education statistics obtained from the BC Ministry of Education. They included Student Achievement Report for elementary and middle schools, School Examination Trends for secondary schools, and District Key Information and District Operations Trends for school districts. They were documented and presented annually in ways that were customized for each school and district and designed so education partners in BC schools and districts could easily understand the meanings and implications of the statistics. In 2005, 43 school districts subscribed to the District Key Information binder. Over 80 percent of public secondary schools subscribed to the School Examination Trends binder.

Beginning in 2005, the Ministry of Education began to deliver the annual files of statistics either late, or restricted in scope, or not at all. This made it impossible for the Adminfo Education Reporting System to deliver a complete set of statistics each year, or to deliver in a timely manner, or both, decreasing its viability.

As a result, the last products from the Adminfo Education Reporting System were delivered in May, 2019. Since 2020, the Ministry’s over-masking of school and district results in Freedom of Information requests has made it impossible to re-develop these products. However, three Orders (F09-21, F10-29 and F11-20) from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) to the Ministry of Education have provided Adminfo with the opportunity to continue producing annual Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) results in the Student Achievement Report.

In November 2018, Adminfo discovered some errors in the Ministry’s analysis and reporting of FSA results, and has since found that these errors began with the 2007/08 FSA. Efforts by Adminfo to encourage the Ministry to fix these errors have been unsuccessful and the FSA errors persist to this day.

In response, Adminfo has used the Ministry’s student level FSA files obtained pursuant to the three OIPC Orders to repair the FSA errors based on the author’s experience as the Ministry’s FSA data validator for seven years, using the Ministry’s own analytical practices during the First FSA Series, and the principles underlying the analytical practices of international assessments. The result is a new edition of the Student Achievement Report containing both the Ministry’s incorrect FSA results and the repaired version of the same results, from 2017/18 to 2023/24. This required a re-analysis of 28 FSA datasets – four per year (Grade 4 Literacy/Reading and Numeracy and Grade 7 Literacy/Reading and Numeracy) for the past seven years.

The new edition of the Student Achievement Report has two versions – a school version and a district version. Each version is TWO reports in one. The FIRST report in each edition is found at Tabs 1 to 8 and is based on LEVELS of student achievement and reports the percentages of students who meet or exceed provincial standards for their grade level each year (looking through the lens of provincial standards). Both the Ministry’s incorrect version and the repaired version are included, together with a breakdown of the Ministry’s FSA errors since 2007/08.

The SECOND report in each Student Achievement Report is at Tab 9. It is a stand-alone report looking through the lens of Effective Instructional Programs in schools and districts. It uses a robust research design from the field of Program Evaluation and is based on the relative GAIN or LOSS in Literacy/Reading and Numeracy FSA scores of Matched Cohorts of students from Grade 4 to Grade 7 three years later. For more information, visit Effective Instructional Programs.


PDFFor elementary, middle and junior secondary schools:

Schools can order for a single school or a group of schools. Price includes economy of scale. To order, please fill in the School Order Form (PDF) and fax or email as shown on the form.


PDFFor school districts

Districts can order for the district only, or a group of districts, and can also order for groups of schools using the School Order Form. Price includes economy of scale for both district and school orders. To order for districts, please fill in the District Order Form (PDF) and fax or email as shown on the form.