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Home My WebLink AboutEQAO testing needs overhaul, report to education minister says - Toronto Star - 04/24/2018 - Toronto Star - 04/24/20184/26/2018 EQAO testing needs overhaul, report to education minister says I The Star colleagues,This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To order presentation -ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution to permissions/licensing, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com EQAO testing needs overhaul, report to education minister says Indira orecommendations province -wide numeracy A report released Tuesday says the Ontario government should "phase out" standardized testing in Grade 3, as well as in Grade 9 math, "substantially https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/04/24/egao-testing-needs-overhaul-report-to-education-minister-says.html 1/10 4/26/2018 EQAO testing needs overhaul, report to education minister says I The Star modernize" Grade 6 assessments, and end but then reform the mandatory Grade lo literacy test. (JOHN RENNISON / THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR FILI By KRISTIN RUSHOVVY Queen's Park Bureau Tues., April 24, 2oi8 The future of province -wide standardized testin.......... be determined in consultation with parents, teachers and others in the system, says Ontario's education minister in response to a report that recommends changes to the contentious literacy and numeracy evaluations given to students in four grades. The report, released online Tuesday, says that over the next several years, the government should "phase out" tests in Grade 3, as well as in Grade 9 math, 64 substantially modernize" Grade 6 assessments, and end but then reform the mandatory Grade lo literacy test. It even suggests that in transforming testing by the Education Quality and Accountability Office, or EQAO, that the government consider "re -naming and re- launching the Crown agency" which has been a source of much frustration among teacher unions. Scroll down to answer a selection ofsample questionsfrom the Grade lo literacy test e province wi work—WiT=e ucation sector partners to move torwarff—on tne recommendations for strengthening classroom assessment and reporting," said Education Minister Indira Naidoo-Harris in a written statement. WWII= KI -,_ I�W Are you smarter than a loth Grader? Try Ontario's literacy test Opinion I Sachin Maharaj: by we should end EQAO testing https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/20l8/O4/24/eqao-testing-needs-overhaul-report-to-education-minister-says.html 2/10 4/26/2018 EQAO testing needs overhaul, report to education minister says I The Star Peel Board wants province to cancel EQAO tests this year He prefers either modernizing EQAOhe recommended years ago, a random sampling approach that "selects schools according to key characteristics and random chooses kids within those schools who are told — along with parents — that they are going to act as 'consultants' to see how the Ontario curriculum is doing by filling out some forms, he said. "This would best deal with the report's interest in an annual snapshot rather than thr.� school improvement approach at present," said Pascal, a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Pascal also questioned the recommendation toe Grade 3 testing, saying it is needed to see if the benefits of full-day kindergarten last as children progress through the primary years® The report, commissioned by the government, was led by Carol Campbell of the University of Toronto's faculty of education, and involved consultations with thousands Are you smarter than a ioth Graderl Here are questions from an EQAO Grade 10 sample literacy test. Questions 1-5 focus on writing, and the next five questions focus on reading and comprehension. You need 75% to pass. i. Choose the sentence that does not beLong in this paragraph: (i) Traffic is busy on city streets. (2) Cars, pedestrians and cycLists must share them. (3) Pedestrians often cross the street where it is convenient but not aLways where it is safe. (4) TaLL buiLdings often Line the streets. 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