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Results for the most recent Grade 3 and 6 tests, taken last May under the administration of the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO), were made available to school boards late last week. Blanchette says the process is already underway for informing each pupil about their own score. Meanwhile, board-wide and school-by-school results generally must be released to the public by CFF plans seminar The Christian Farmers Federation has a vision for a renewed agriculture that is productive, keeps people on the land, and protects provincial resources of land, water and air. On Thursday, Dec. 12 from 9:30_ a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the meeting room, Gencor, 5653 Hwy. 6 North, RR5, Guelph, ON there will be a seminar on the findings of workshops sponsored by the CFFO and the vision that has emerged from them. The vision includes an action plan for a moderate-scale farming and multi-benefit agriculture. Presentations are: 1. Workshop findings on Environmental Payments, Charlotte McCallum, Consultant, CFFO. 2. Gearing up for a Better Future, findings from the workshop series, Elbert van Donkersgoed, Strategic Policy Advisor, CFFO 3. Ready for Change, !earnings from four CFFO workshops series, Bill van Geest, Touchstone Consulting. 4. Closer to the Heart: A CFFO Vision for Farming, CFFO Executive Board members. The morning sessions will emphasize what has been learned from this year's workshop series on: "Gearing Up for A Better Future: An Emerging Vision for Farmers and Farming in Ontario." The afternoon sessions will review the workshops the CFFO has sponsored over the past four years and the new vision document that has emerged. A light lunch will be available to those who register in advance. Contact 519:837-1620 or evd@christianfarmers.org Copies of the report and vision will be available at the seminar and are posted on the CFFO website in pdf format. Jan. 30, 2003; the Huron-Perth board allows each school to set its own timetable, but chose the regular meeting of Monday, Dec. 10 to release its board-wide data. Achievements among the board's Grade 3 students were slightly higher than the provincial average, with 54 per cent equalling or surpassing the provincial standard in reading and 60 per cent achieving similar success in writing. Ontario- wide averages were 53 per cent in reading and 58 per cent in writing. In math, 63 per cent of Huron- Perth Grade 3 students met the provincial standard, compared to 61 per cent province-wide. Deviation from the provincial average was a little larger among Grade 6 students. In all three disciplines, 61 per cent of Huron- Perth students taking the test met the provincial standard, compared with province-wide results of 58 per cent in reading, 56 per cent in math, and 55 per cent in writing. The tests, which normllly are conducted for about two hours per day over the span of five days, were launched in 1998. In the past, Blanchette has cautioned against comparing data from different schools, suggesting demographic or social factors could skew results. This year, he provided trustees with his own four-year (for the Grade 6 test, which started in 1999) and five-year (for the Grade 3 test) analysis of the board's results, and was heartened to see that the EQAO provided, for the first time, a year-by-year comparison of provincial data. "You have to be wary of placing a higb4 level of emphasis on the results from one year," he said at the Dec. 10 meeting. "I think you have to look at it with a multi-year approach, and I was happy to see that, in the EQAO report, they're now starting to look at more of the multi-year data." The EQAO report shows some improvement at all levels, most significantly in Grade 6 reading and writing. Achievements in math for both grades rose slightly in the first couple of years, but the trend now seems to have levelled off or reversed. Blanchette's analysis shows a similar levelling of the trend in math among the Huron-Perth board's Grade 3 and 6 students. And, similar to the provincial results, the most significant improvements over time have been in Grade 6 reading and writing. Board-by-board results from the EQAO:s Grade 9 math test, conducted in January, 2002, were also supposed to be made available this past week. However, Blanchette reports that the Huron-Perth board received a telephone call from an EQAO representative, who stated there were problems with the information and that its release would be delayed. Province-wide data was not affected, Blanchette was told, and is currently available on the EQAO's website.