I think—
Evidence of meeting #59 for Official Languages in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was students.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #59 for Official Languages in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was students.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Director, Analytics and Research, College of Nurses of Ontario
Consultation takes various different forms. I would suggest that if you were writing an exam that is going to be testing concepts that were taught in a program, it may be problematic to have the individuals who were involved in teaching the program setting the test.
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Liberal
René Arseneault Liberal Madawaska—Restigouche, NB
Mr. Knowles, in the name of the order that you are presenting for today, how come there was no consultation with the French universities? For example—
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Director, Analytics and Research, College of Nurses of Ontario
By consultation you mean....
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Liberal
René Arseneault Liberal Madawaska—Restigouche, NB
About the exam, the content, you said it's a Canadian product—
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Director, Analytics and Research, College of Nurses of Ontario
The content of the exam is—now we can have that discussion as well, too—being taught through the curriculum of the programs. We've done a full study of that as well, to ensure that....
Ontario also sets the entry requirements, so we ensure that the entry requirements of the programs and the curriculum cover the content that will be tested in the exam. Therefore, the—
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Liberal
René Arseneault Liberal Madawaska—Restigouche, NB
Again, my question is how come we heard people here, professionals, nurses, say that they had never been consulted, even in New Brunswick.
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Director, Analytics and Research, College of Nurses of Ontario
Again by consultation—
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Liberal
René Arseneault Liberal Madawaska—Restigouche, NB
It's the content of this exam that you need, to practise nursing.
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Director, Analytics and Research, College of Nurses of Ontario
The content of the exam is taught in the programs that we approve and that we review on an ongoing basis, to ensure that the content of the program is something that is being tested by the exam. That's part of our overall mandate, to ensure that all these components work together.
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Liberal
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Denis Paradis
No, Mr. Arseneault. We are out of time.
That was the last word.
I would like to thank you very much, Ms. Jones, Mr. Knowles, Ms. Janes, and Ms. Whitehead, for your presentations. It's going to help the committee to assess the situation. On behalf of the committee, thank you again.
The committee is adjourned.