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This paper outlines the value of good data and how EQAO assessments help to ensure that everyone involved in educating our children has the most powerful information available to continue this improvement.
Provincial assessments that gather information from every student provide an essential foundation of data that educators, policy-makers and researchers rely on to plan for student progress. Full-census assessments also create strong, local accountability in the publicly funded school system.
The Power of Good Information [PDF] | Posted 27.11.09
Mathematical formulas are provided on the Formula Sheets for student reference during the assessment. Formulas are given for perimeter, area and volume for various geometric figures; the academic formula sheet also includes surface area.
This sample Individual Student Report shows how students receive their results for the province-wide Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics, 2008–2009.
Sample Individual Student Report [PDF] | Posted 11.26.09
Click the links to access sample assessment questions, student responses and scoring guides taken from past years' Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics.
2008–2009 | 2007–2008 | 2006–2007 | 2005–2006 | 2004–2005 | 2003–2004 | 2002–2003 | 2001–2002 | 2000–2001
Additional Tasks: These tasks have been used in a previous assessment. Teachers may use them as instructional tools or for classroom assessment with students in either applied or academic programs.
[PDF] | Posted 12.23.05
This report outlines the technical features and professional expertise that were used to ensure the accuracy, validity and psychometric integrity of the EQAO assessments administered in 2007–2008.
This guide is intended to assist school and school board administrators in interpreting their students’ assessment results in order to improve student learning. Topics include:
Using Data to Promote Student Success: August 2008 [PDF] | Posted 10.01.08
This year, EQAO is privileged to have gathered a number of stories from local school communities that exemplify the many successful learning environments in publicly funded schools across the province.
This document reports on the technical features and professional expertise that were used to ensure the accuracy, validity and psychometric integrity of EQAO assessments, administered in 2006–2007.
The 2006–2007 Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics includes single-part open-response items.
Posted 01.16.07
School boards require schools to develop school improvement plans. Parents who wish further information about their school's improvement plan should contact the school or school board directly.
Posted 10.19.05
Throughout the assessment, key words are used to identify the type of response required from students.
Posted 10.12.05
The French Immersion Glossary is to be used by French Immersion students who study mathematics in French.
French Immersion Glossary [PDF] | Posted 10.16.06
Technical Paper: Relationship Between Education Quality Indicators and Achievement, Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics, 2001–2002.
[PDF] | Posted 06.13.03
Explanatory Paper: the development, scoring and reporting of the Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics, 2000–2001.
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