ELA 20-1 Unit Exam Review

Jennefer, Danielle, and Duff discuss the poetry exam.

The Curriculum Development Exam Centre and English Language Arts instructors are working together to review and revise the ELA 20-1 Unit Exams. Jennefer Rousseau approached the Curriculum Coordinator, Carey Hilgartner about collaborating with all ELA instructors on creating new exams for ELA 20-1, and the review project was born! Thanks to Jennefer for bringing this project forward, and to Carey for his support in moving forward.

Our project team is:

Meghan Clayton

Marc Desilets

Danielle Dore

Tasha Nott

Murray Ronaghan

Jennefer Rousseau

Duff Waddell


The group is reviewing and classifying items and adding existing items to the new English Language Arts Unit Exam Blueprint. At the end of the review, the ELA 20-1 students in the Centre will write common unit exams for four of the five units. The novel unit is left to the discretion of the instructor. 

Marc & Meghan collaborating

The process has been going very well so far with weekly check-in meetings and instructors collaborating together during the day. Project team members have been busy reviewing and revising items, as well as searching for and selecting new readings that are appropriate for 20-1. The new exams will also include readings with Aboriginal content, something that was lacking in the previous exams. Our thanks to Danielle Dore for taking the lead on finding readings that contain Aboriginal content and/or have Aboriginal authors. The new unit exams will also have Form Return answer sheets in order to collect data and statistics on the exams, and the Form Return answer sheets will be machine scored.

We are very excited about the new exams in ELA 20-1 and we will continue to share our progress with you. If you have any questions about this or other Exam Development projects, please contact the Curriculum Coordinator Carey Hilgartner, or Maureen Stewart Exam Development Lead. Please see the Foundational Curriculum website for more information on all the Curriculum Development projects and centre work. 

Thanks very much to Carey and the project team for your hard work on this! 

The 20-1 Project Group (missing Tasha Nott)