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The 2010 Composite Learning Index: Five Years of Measuring Canada’s Progress in Lifelong Learning (2010) State of Learning in Canada: A Year in Review (2009-2010) Post-secondary Education in Canada: Meeting our Needs? (2008-2009) Tallying the Costs of Post-secondary Education: The Challenge of Managing Student Debt and Loan Repayment in Canada (2010) The State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada: A Holistic Approach to Measuring Success (2009)
The 2010 Composite Learning Index: Five Years of Measuring Canada’s Progress in Lifelong Learning (2010)
State of Learning in Canada: A Year in Review (2009-2010)
Post-secondary Education in Canada: Meeting our Needs? (2008-2009)
Tallying the Costs of Post-secondary Education: The Challenge of Managing Student Debt and Loan Repayment in Canada (2010)
The State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada: A Holistic Approach to Measuring Success (2009)
CCL is an independent, non-profit corporation that supplies evidence-based research intended to improve all aspects of learning—across the country and across all walks of life. We have a demonstrable record of providing relevant research and materials to a wide variety of organizations—including governments, employers, communities, and individuals.
At the Canadian Council on Learning, we get to the root of learning by asking a lot of questions—questions about what works best for Canadians and for the communities where they live, work and grow.
CCL publishes a wide variety of reports and tools free of charge to facilitate and support the progress of lifelong learning in Canada. CCL is the only organization in Canada to offer free online data tools on learning:
The Composite Learning Index (CLI) is the first index of its kind in the world, measuring Canada’s progress in lifelong learning. An annual composite indicator measuring the state of lifelong learning in over 5,000 communities in Canada. Inspired by the UNESCO’s Four Pillars of Learning (Learning to Know, Learning to do, Learning to live together, Learning to Be), the index is based on 25 different learning measures representing the different ways that people learn at home, at school, at work and in their community. Since 2006, the CLI tracks progress of lifelong learning and provides a valuable monitoring tool to measure the strengths and challenges of lifelong learning for each community in Canada.
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Published annually, the State of Learning is a comprehensive synthesis of data and research on key aspects of learning in Canada, including early childhood learning; learning in school; learning in the post-secondary years; adult learning and Aboriginal learning. Relevant data indicators are used as measures of Canada’s progress in learning. The report monitors progress for each indicator and provides insight into where Canada currently stands.
The State of Learning lays the foundation for a culture of learning by providing relevant information for policy makers, governments, educators and citizens that will help Canadians achieve their full potential.
The 2009–2010 State of Learning in Canada: A Year in Review report provides the most up-to-date information available on Canada’s learning landscape, and in the process helps contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of how Canadians are faring as lifelong learners. (March 2010) Download report l Visit the site
The 2009–2010 State of Learning in Canada: A Year in Review report provides the most up-to-date information available on Canada’s learning landscape, and in the process helps contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of how Canadians are faring as lifelong learners. (March 2010)
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State of Learning is an annual publication that pulls Canada's learning landscape into focus. This report focuses on how adult learning —all forms of learning undertaken by adults beyond initial education and training — can help to foster a more secure future for Canadians and Canada. (September 2009) Download report l Visit the site
State of Learning is an annual publication that pulls Canada's learning landscape into focus. This report focuses on how adult learning —all forms of learning undertaken by adults beyond initial education and training — can help to foster a more secure future for Canadians and Canada. (September 2009)
This report provides an overview of how well Canadians are equipped to meet the demands of our collective future. (July 2008) Download report l Visit the site
This report provides an overview of how well Canadians are equipped to meet the demands of our collective future. (July 2008)
This report examines Canada’s state of learning in early childhood, at school, through adulthood, in the workplace and for Aboriginal Peoples, with a special feature on literacy that touches on all these areas. (January 2007) Download report l Visit the site
This report examines Canada’s state of learning in early childhood, at school, through adulthood, in the workplace and for Aboriginal Peoples, with a special feature on literacy that touches on all these areas. (January 2007)
Retaining a leading position in post-secondary education (PSE) requires national direction that is supported by strong information systems to guide decision-making. CCL’s objective is to provide Canadians with the most current information about the sector’s capacity to contribute to the achievement of Canada’s social and economic goals.
Published annually, the State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada is a comprehensive synthesis of data and research, reporting on the progress of the PSE sector based upon eight goals and objectives. Each chapter introduces and defines a particular PSE goal, and presents data indicators on the topic. Individual indicators are then explored in terms of their importance and applied as measures of the evolving state of PSE in Canada. Where possible, Canadian indicators are compared over time and to relevant data from other countries.
This report offers a much-needed perspective for informed public discussion about the future of PSE in this country and how the sector can best help Canadians to find success. (February 2009) Download report l Visit the site
This report offers a much-needed perspective for informed public discussion about the future of PSE in this country and how the sector can best help Canadians to find success. (February 2009)
This report begins to provide answers about the extent to which we are currently attaining pan-Canadian goals. (December 2007) Download report l Visit the site
This report begins to provide answers about the extent to which we are currently attaining pan-Canadian goals. (December 2007)
This report aims to inform Canadians about the extent to which Canada is meeting stated social and economic objectives through post-secondary education. (December 2006) Download report l Visit the site
This report aims to inform Canadians about the extent to which Canada is meeting stated social and economic objectives through post-secondary education. (December 2006)
This monograph series consists of research-based articles that confront important issues faced by students, teachers and administrators in Canada’s colleges, universities and apprenticeship programs. Each piece in the series is dedicated to issues that have been previously identified as critical in CCL’s annual reports on the state of post-secondary education in Canada.
The third monograph in the series delves into the current state of the Canada’s Student Loans Program (CSLP) and examines the long-term impact it is having on college and university students after they graduate. (September 2010) Download report l Visit the site
The third monograph in the series delves into the current state of the Canada’s Student Loans Program (CSLP) and examines the long-term impact it is having on college and university students after they graduate. (September 2010)
The second monograph in the series studies the need for a Canada-wide classification system for our post-secondary institutions. (September 2010) Download report l Visit the site
The second monograph in the series studies the need for a Canada-wide classification system for our post-secondary institutions. (September 2010)
This inaugural monograph discusses the complex challenges associated with defining and demonstrating quality in PSE. (November 2009) Download report l Visit the site
This inaugural monograph discusses the complex challenges associated with defining and demonstrating quality in PSE. (November 2009)
The ability to access and use high-quality learning resources anytime and anywhere is an increasingly important element of all forms of learning. Challenges remain in terms of coordinating the tools, standards, practices and infrastructure necessary, and building the capacity and confidence of both providers and learners to use e-learning effectively. CCL’s State of E-Learning in Canada improves Canadians’ understanding of e-learning—particularly of its challenges, limitations and benefits—so that Canada may move forward in appropriate and relevant ways. (May 2009)
Both in its narrower sense—the reading, writing and numeracy skills needed to cope with everyday tasks—and in its broader, more nuanced sense—the multiple literacies required to thrive in a knowledge economy—literacy is interwoven through the full spectrum of CCL’s work.
Thanks to new, previously unreleased data, CCL is now able to provide literacy projections on an unprecedented city level. CCL’s new report, The Future of Literacy in Canada’s Largest Cities, offers adult literacy projections for Canada’s largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa. (September 2010) Download report l Visit the site
Thanks to new, previously unreleased data, CCL is now able to provide literacy projections on an unprecedented city level. CCL’s new report, The Future of Literacy in Canada’s Largest Cities, offers adult literacy projections for Canada’s largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa. (September 2010)
This groundbreaking report provides Canada’s first projections of adult literacy levels until 2031 for Canada, provinces and territories. It provides projections by gender, immigrant status and education levels. (June 2008) Download report l Visit the site
This groundbreaking report provides Canada’s first projections of adult literacy levels until 2031 for Canada, provinces and territories. It provides projections by gender, immigrant status and education levels. (June 2008)
These reports are complemented by a web-based tool, called PALMM (Projections of Adult Literacy—Measuring Movement) which calculate interactively adult literacy rates into the future.
CCL’s two health literacy reports examined the relationship between levels of health literacy and health outcomes. They also outline how certain characteristics, such as education and age, can affect health literacy.
These interactive maps provides an in-depth look at the numeracy, prose and health literacy profiles for more than 50,000 communities and neighbourhoods in Canada as well as the country’s major cities, economic regions and provinces.
First Nations, Inuit and Métis have long advocated learning that affirms their own ways of knowing, cultural traditions and values. CCL introduced three online, interactive learning tools, accessible from CCL’s website. These online tools provide an opportunity to demonstrate how the Holistic Lifelong Learning Models can be used to identify data gaps, disseminate information to a larger audience and increase access to data and indicators. The State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada: A Holistic Approach to Measuring Success represents the first application of a framework for measuring Aboriginal learning and marks an innovative approach to measuring Aboriginal learning in Canada.
CCL and its Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre, in partnership with Aboriginal organizations in Canada, have developed an innovative approach to measuring Aboriginal learning—one that should lead to more effective lifelong learning and contribute to a higher quality of life for Aboriginal Peoples across Canada. To support this initiative, CCL introduced three online, interactive learning tools, accessible from CCL’s website. These online tools provide an opportunity to demonstrate how the Holistic Lifelong Learning Models can be used to identify data gaps, disseminate information to a larger audience and increase access to data and indicators. (November 2007) Download report l Visit the site
CCL and its Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre, in partnership with Aboriginal organizations in Canada, have developed an innovative approach to measuring Aboriginal learning—one that should lead to more effective lifelong learning and contribute to a higher quality of life for Aboriginal Peoples across Canada. To support this initiative, CCL introduced three online, interactive learning tools, accessible from CCL’s website. These online tools provide an opportunity to demonstrate how the Holistic Lifelong Learning Models can be used to identify data gaps, disseminate information to a larger audience and increase access to data and indicators. (November 2007)
Until now, a comprehensive framework for measuring Aboriginal learning has been unavailable in Canada, or, in fact, most of the world. The State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada: A Holistic Approach to Measuring Success represents the first application of such a framework and marks an innovative approach to measuring Aboriginal learning in Canada. (December 2009) Download report l Visit the site
Until now, a comprehensive framework for measuring Aboriginal learning has been unavailable in Canada, or, in fact, most of the world. The State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada: A Holistic Approach to Measuring Success represents the first application of such a framework and marks an innovative approach to measuring Aboriginal learning in Canada. (December 2009)
Lessons in Learning is published to provide Canadians with independent information about ‘what works’ in learning. Each publication focusses on a specific topical issue. All articles follow a consistent format and provide links to sources of data and related research.
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Access to quality data is essential to researchers, academics and others working in the field of learning in Canada. To address this need CCL has developed a comprehensive online Data Warehouse that provides educators, researchers, policy-makers and the general public with free access to the majority of CCL’s research data used over the past six years.
This warehouse includes all of the indicators used in CCL’s State of Learning in Canada reports (2007, 2008, 2009-2010) and CCL’s reports on the State of Post-secondary Education in Canada (2006, 2007, 2008-2009). In addition, some of the data has been updated with new previously unpublished information.
To view a complete list of CCL reports and learning instruments freely available to the Canadian public, please visit www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Reports