Parent Involvement Committee EQAO Presentation

1. Parent InvolvementCommittee EQAO Presentation January 15th, 2018

2. The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning.

3. Comparable year-to-year data for accountability and understanding Reliable, objective, high quality data used for decision-making Snapshot data Standardized, curriculum aligned tasks Some accommodations, no differentiation

4. USE OF ASSESSMENT PURPOSE Assessment as Learning Setting Personal Goals After Peer and Self Assessment Reflecting on Own Learning Assessment for Learning Feedback for Students Classroom Assessment EQAO Adjusting Instruction Differentiate and Personalize Learning Assessment of Learning Summarizing Learning Communicate Achievement Mark to Assign Value to Quality of Demonstrated Learning

5. The Primary and Junior Division Assesses... Mathematics Key aspects of: • Number sense and Numeration • Measurement • Geometry and Spatial Sense • Patterning and Algebra • Data Management and Probability Reading • Understanding explicitly (directly) stated information and ideas • Understanding implicitly (indirectly) stated information and ideas • Responding to reading by making connections, interpreting information and evaluating texts Writing • Developing a main idea with sufficient supporting details • Organizing information and ideas in a coherent manner • Using language conventions (grammar, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation)

6. Planning for Meaningful Learning

7. The Primary and Junior Division Assessment

8. Planning for Meaningful Learning

9. The Primary and Junior Division Assessment

10. Data is Analysed Data is used to Assessment Data is Gathered Informs board improvement plan Informs school goals and theories of action Provision of supports and professional learning Teacher practice From the assessments, grounded in curriculum What is important? What gaps are shown? Who are we targeting? Example • Primary Assessment • Implicit reading skills • Students choose appropriate evidence from text to supporting thinking We noticed that the majority of students are not achieving level three in this specific skill. Plan for Student Success: includes a literacy goal focus implicit reading skills School: Theory action focused on Implicit reading skills Educators invest in PL to increase their capacity around teaching implicit reading, Teacher uses strategies like coding the text.

11. The Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics 9 Applied Key aspects of: • Number Sense and Algebra • Linear Relations • Measurement and Geometry 9 Academic Key aspects of: • Number Sense and Algebra • Linear Relations • Analytic Geometry • Measurement and Geometry

12. Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics

13. Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test • Eligible students working towards their graduation diploma are required to write the OSSLT at least once • If the test is not successfully completed, students may either opt to write the test a second time or enroll in the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course (OSSLC)

14. Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test

15. The use of data • EQAO and classroom assessment data are used collaborativelyto understand our students and make thoughtful, purposeful decisions at the system and school level to continue supporting student learning and wellbeing. • EQAO and classroom assessment data are used collaboratively to plan, offer and reflect on to professional learning that is provided to Peel educators.