IM_Johnson_2022_0518.pub

The EQAO provincial assessments of literacy and numeracy have been given to every student at the end of Grade 3 and the end of Grade 6 since 1996. [...] This information tells educators, parents, and administrators of success in the teaching of reading and problems in the teaching of math. [...] How will students perform on the assessments currently being written? When these results are in, then we will have a provincial-level, a school-level and for the students in the assessment, an independent and credible individual level measure of the effects of the pandemic school disruptions on student achievement relative to non-pandemic years. [...] In this example the outside assessment of reading skills of Grade 1 students showed a substantial decline in skills and the report card assessments showed a small increase. [...] If the teacher report card(s) and the EQAO result of a student or a group of students are systematically different, then the principal or parent can have a discussion about such differences.