In 2003, the provincial and territorial Ministers of Education, through the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC), agreed to undertake the development of the Pan-Canadian Assessment Program (PCAP) to assess the knowledge and skills of Grade 8 students across Canada in the core subjects of reading, mathematics, and science. The PCAP assessments have two main purposes: to help policy‐makers make informed decisions about education and to determine how prepared Grade 8 students are for future academic challenges. The reports for the PCAP assessments are available on the CMEC website .
In Ontario, 140 English-language schools and 115 French-language schools were selected to participate in this pan-Canadian assessment and Crestwood Preparatory College was one of these schools. On Tuesday April 26th ,2016 a randomly selected group of Grade 8 students wrote the assessment representing Ontario. Results will be published in 2017 on pan-Canadian and provincial and territorial levels for both language groups.
