PCAP 2016

2 PCAP is administered to students in Secondary II in Quebec and Grade 8 in the rest of Canada 3 During the first cycle of PCAP (2007–13) each domain was the primary focus in a different year: reading in 2007, mathematics in 2010, and science in 2013. [...] The bottom quarter represents numbers below the 25th percentile; the third quarter represents the 25th to the 49th percentile; the second quarter represents the 50th to the 74th percentile; and the top quarter represents the 75th percentile and above. [...] The contribution of any one predictor to the outcome is represented by a regression coefficient, the value of which depends on the effect of the predictor itself and of the other variables in the model. [...] With respect to gender, although the gap between the top and bottom quarter of this index is the same for girls and boys (28 points), the achievement of girls in the bottom quarter of this index was similar to that of boys in the top half of the index. [...] Reading resources in the classroom Description of the index The relationship between reading habits and academic achievement appears to vary with the types of texts with which students engage, their purposes for doing so, and the skills they bring to the process.