Ontario Math Scores Improved, and Still Trail the Provincial Standard
Ontario students are showing progress in math compared with last year, CBC reports, citing new data from the province's standardized tests. The same data puts the percentage of students meeting provincial standards at a low level. Improvement and proficiency are separate measures: a rising score can sit well below the threshold the province treats as adequate, which is the gap the new numbers describe.
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The two numbers do different jobs. One tracks direction of travel, the other tracks whether students are actually where the curriculum wants them. Both can be true in the same report.
Pushback
True, but a year of gains from a low base is the kind of result that gets read as a turnaround. The standards figure is what keeps that reading honest.