Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 June 2004
281 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if every school received support for the purchase of appropriate age related literacy tests to assist teachers in their work, as promised in the joint programme; and if not, his intention to remedy the situation. [17524/04]
View answerThe joint programme for Government undertook to provide financial support to schools for the purpose of age related literacy tests to enable teachers to measure the progress of students and to use the results of the tests to inform their subsequent planning and teaching.
Following the introduction of the revised curriculum to schools in 1999, a number of changes were made to the English curriculum in primary schools. As a result test providers revised their standardised reading literacy tests in English. One of the test publishers has completed the test revision and another will publish a new reading literacy test in February 2006. I propose to consider the question of supporting schools to purchase the tests when all of the revised standardised reading literacy tests in English become available.
