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EQAO Grade 10 Literacy Test - October 2004
Report to the Community
The Education
Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) is providing the results of the Grade
10 Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test which took place in October 2004.
Successful
completion of the test is a Secondary School Diploma requirement. Every student
whose test was evaluated received an individual Student Report which indicated
if he or she was successful. A pass or fail designation was based on the combined
reading and writing results and reported as a single literacy score. Individual
Student Reports, as well as school, board and provincial reports now reflect
the move to a single literacy score.
The Individual
Student Report is reviewed with each unsuccessful student for the purpose of
designing remediation to address the student's particular area(s) of weakness.
Schools have already been reviewing results and planning various remediation
options. Results were reported using two methods: All First-Time Eligible
Students refers to the percentage of all students who were eligible to
write the test; while Fully Participating First-Time Eligible Students refers
to all students who actually wrote the test.
Key Findings: Again,
St. Thomas More has shown marked improvement in the OSSLT results, with 88%
of first time participating students being successful, exceeding board and provincial
success rates in every category. There are three main significant areas to note.
Firstly, the male students' results were much higher than their provincial counterparts.
Secondly, students with special needs and those from the applied stream did
much better than comparative groups in the board and province. Finally, 78%
of those participating students who had not passed the test previously were
successful, far surpassing the board and provincial norms in this category,
and a tribute to the extensive remediation efforts implemented last year. The
overall results are encouraging, and will improve even more when our students
do more independent reading and writing, where they fall below the provincial
norm (except for e-mail usage). A detailed Literacy Improvement Plan will be
formulated when results are analyzed.
To view
all of the data for the school, board and provincial results, visit the EQAO
web-site at www.eqao.com.
The charts
below provide an overall viewing of school, board, and provincial results. For
further inquiries please call the school.
| School Results | Board Results | Provincial Results | ||||
| Fully Participating | 502 |
99% |
2,276 |
98% |
147,781 |
92% |
| Absent | 7 |
1% |
41 |
2% |
3% |
|
| Deferred | 0 |
0% |
14 |
1% |
4% |
|
| Successful All First-Time | 87% |
82% |
76% |
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| Not Successful All First-Time | 12% |
16% |
16% |
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| Succesful Fully Participating | 88% |
84% |
82% |
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| Not Succesful Fully Participating | 12% |
16% |
18% |
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