Skip to content

Processes to Manage the Student Class Size Initiative

In the early 2000s, the Department of Education examined analysis that reducing student class sizes can have a positive impact on improving learning outcomes.

Back to Reports

Summary

Objective and Scope

Our audit objective was to examine the design and operating effectiveness of the Department of Education’s processes to define the desired results of the Class Size Initiative, to develop and action plan to achieve those results, and to measure, monitor and report on the initiative.

Conclusion

We concluded that the Department of Education did not, in all significant respects, have effective processes as of July 2017 to define the desired results of the Class Size Initiative, to develop an action plan to achieve those results, and to measure, monitor and report on the initiative.

Based on our audit findings, it appears that department has, over time, converted Class Size Initiative funding to additional base instructional funding.

Assistant Auditor General, Robert Driesen CPA, CA, ICD.D discusses the Office of the Auditor General of Alberta’s audit of Alberta Education’s Processes to Manage the Class Size Initiative.
Download Report