Huron Expositor, 2007-06-20, Page 6Page 6 June 20, 2007 • The Huron Expositor
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It's tough to improve on second
best, but that's just what the Grade
10 students of the Huron -Perth
Catholic District School Board did
last March, earning the top provin-
cial results in the annual Ontario
Secondary School Literacy Test
(OSSLT).
"We're very, very pleased with
these results," said Huron -Perth
education superintendent Dan Parr.
As has been the case consistently
over the past few years, both the
Huron -Perth Catholic and Avon
News
schools excel at literacy testing
Maitland District School Board
achieved above the provincial aver-
age on the 2007 OSSLT.
The annual EQAO standardized
test is a requirement for graduation
from high school.
This year, the average success
rate among first-time writers across
Ontario was 84 per cent.
The province -topping rate among
Huron -Perth Catholic students was
91 per cent.
Meanwhile, 84 per cent of first-
time Avon Maitland writers were
successful.
John Herbert, Avon Maitland
assessment and evaluation coordi-
nator, said the board takes particu-
lar pride in the success rate of its
applied -level Grade 10 students.
"To be honest, it's not that hard to
expect an academic -level student to
do well on the Ontario Literacy
Test," Herbert said. "But when you
look at what our applied -level stu-
dents achieve, when some of them
are bringing to the classroom chal-
which make it difficult to
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achieve well in a snapshot test like
this, we're very proud of those
results."
In this regard, students from the
district's two boards were virtually
equal in 2007. Both boards recorded
a success rate of 75 per cent among
first-time writers in the applied
stream, compared to a provincial
average of 62 per cent.
St. Anne's principal Chris Roehrig
and CHSS principal Herb Klassen
said they were pleased with their
students' results.
"It's right in the ball park of how
we've done in the last five years.
We're definitely proud of our results
because our staff and students have
worked very hard to achieve them,"
Roehrig explained.
Roehrig added some credit for the
school's success should go to the ele-
mentary feeder schools.
Additional support is offered to
Grade 9 students who may have dif-
ficulty passing the test.
Similar programs are underway
at CHSS, where 80 per cent of the
school's Grade 10 students were
successful on their tests.
"We've improved for four years
running. Every year we've gotten a
little better, but this year is an
anomaly," Klassen said, noting one
reason for the drop in percentage
could be that more students who
would normally not take the test
participated in 2007.
Students who are working
towards a high school certificate
instead of a diploma are often
deferred from the OSSLT, but the
decision is ultimately up to.the par-
ent, he explained. If the certificate
students take the test they are
included in the school's statistics.
"There are a lot of variables to
consider. This is just one of many
issues we have to be wary of when
we look at these statistics. For the
first time in four years, we've had a
little blip and I'm confident we'll
continue to improve," Klassen said.
In the Avon Maitland board,
CHSS showed the highest success
rate percentage for students who
were writing the OSSLT their sec-
ond or third time, at 77 per cent.
"I'm happy to see that those stu-
dents who didn't pass the first year
persevered, wrote again and
passed," he said.
This year, for the first time, a
sample OSSLT was made available
on the EQAO website. Parr praised
this decision, adding "there's noth-
ing secret about it. At least there
shouldn't be anything secret about
it."
He said the sample test, which
has different wording than the real
thing but "tests the same skills .. .
makes it very easy for students and
teachers to prepare."
By Jennifer Hubbard and Stew
Slater