The Chinook School Division recently sat down with the Provincial Ministry of Education to take a look at a new assesment model for the upcoming school year.

Along with an emphasis on a new and improved assessment for learning model, there is a focus on gethering data on student achievement from school divisions across Saskatchewan.

"We've only been comparing ourselves to ourselves," said Chinook Director of Education Liam Choo-Foo. "We've been able to monitor our own improvements over time, but what we haven't been able to do is what we call the peer comparisons, because we haven't had that common piece provincially."

Choo-Foo says they want all of the students in Saskatchewan to do better, and if a school division has seen learning improvements in a certain area, all school divisions should be trying to do the same thing.

He adds the success they have had in the Chinook School Division has come from the fact that they have picked a priority, like literacy and math for example, and stuck with it.