Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics

The administration of the assessment will take place in the winter and spring according to the published administration dates for the current school year.

The Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics is an online assessment that includes two sessions (Session A and Session B), totalling 54 questions (50 questions that are used to determine a student’s outcome and four field-test questions). Each session has two stages and is designed to be completed in approximately 60 minutes. The sessions (Session A and Session B) can be completed one after the other, either back to back with a break in between, or on two different dates and times. Schools consider the needs of the students and operational needs of the school to determine the schedule for writing each session in one continuous, supervised sitting.

The assessment uses a multi-stage computer adaptive testing model that adapts to individual students’ performance as they progress through each assessment session.

More information on the test design can be found in the Framework.

For more information on the scoring of the Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics, please refer to the test’s Framework. For more information on the provincial standard and the levels of achievement, please refer to this resource

An Individual Student Report will be generated for each student shortly after they complete the assessment. Provincial, school and school board results will be available by the end of September in the following school year on EQAO’s public website.

All questions on the assessment are scored automatically (computer-scored).

A student’s outcome is assigned using a statistical procedure that takes into account the student’s responses to all the operational questions on the assessment and the difficulty of each of these questions. This procedure, known as Item Response Theory (IRT), assumes a continuum of ability in knowledge and skills (as reflected by the achievement level 1 to 4), and locates the student’s outcome along that continuum.

Individual completed assessments and student responses cannot be released to the public since questions are kept for use in future assessments. If you are seeking feedback to help improve your child’s success, your child’s teachers will likely have the best insight into the areas that they could improve in to meet the expectations set out in the Ontario Grade 9 mathematics curriculum.