Education Matters Online
News

Volume 3, Issue 4: April 25, 2005

At the most recent meeting of the EQAO Assessment Advisory Committee, Margueritte Jackson announced that the 2005/2006 Grade 10 Literacy Test would be held on March 29th, 2006 instead of in October. This follows Victoria Hemming's assurances in January that there were no plans to change the date. The decision was made after a series of conference calls with principals and board representatives in which consistent concerns were expressed surrounding the fall date.

In addition, the EQAO is considering removing time as an accommodation for the OSSLT, and allowing students to use whatever time is necessary to complete the test, regardless of whether the student has an IEP.

Finally, the EQAO will be field testing a number of writing prompts in schools this fall for use on future OSSLT's. They plan to use a "purposeful" sample of schools and have up to 250 students per school involved. A total of 40 opinions prompts and 40 news prompts will be tested, and more than 20,000 students will be involved province-wide. The EQAO is currently deciding whether they will use students in grade 9, 10 or 11 in the field testing.

Let us not take thought for our separate interests, but let us help one another.
(OSSTF Motto)

Disclaimer