TDSB Results of the 2005-2006 EQAO Assessment of
Grade 3 and 6 Students
More than 18,000 grade 3 students and 19,000 grade 6 students wrote the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) assessments in reading, writing and mathematics in 2005-2006. TDSB results showed an improvement in grade 3 results and an improvement in grade 6 writing results. Since the tests were introduced in 1999, the number of TDSB grade 3 students performing at or above the provincial standard has increased from 43 percent in reading to 59, from 52 to 64 percent in writing, and from 60 to 66 percent in math. TDSB grade 6 students have also seen significant improvement over time with the number of students performing at or above the standard increasing from 48 to 61 percent in reading, from 48 to 61 percent in writing and from 52 to 60 percent in math.

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TDSB Results of the 2005-2006 EQAO Assessment of
Mathematics in Grade 9
More than 20,000 TDSB grade 9 students wrote the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) assessments in mathematics in 2005-2006 and showed improvement in both applied and academic mathematics tests compared to last year. Over the past four years, the number of applied math students performing at or beyond the provincial standard has increased by 9 percent and the number of academic math students performing at or beyond the provincial standard has increased by 8 percent

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TDSB Students Show Improvement Once Again in OSSLT Results
Eighty percent of the almost 20,000 grade 10 TDSB students who wrote the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) for the first time passed, marking a significant improvement from last year's results. The improvement continues a trend over the past three years that has seen TDSB scores improve 14 percent. For the test, students read selections of different types: informational (e.g. paragraph, news report); graphic; and narrative (e.g. dialogue, real-life narrative). Students also complete two long writing tasks (news report and series of paragraphs expressing an opinion) and six short writing tasks (e.g. summary, explanation, personal experience). TDSB staff will review and analyze the results to develop a Board Action Plan, which will be sent to the EQAO. Each school will analyze its own results and develop a plan with strategies to improve student achievement.

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