Ontario, Canada, to release PIRLS results

On Wednesday, November 28, 2007, the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) will release the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), 2006: Highlights of Ontario Results. PIRLS is a worldwide reading literacy assessment of fourth-grade students undertaken every five years and sponsored by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. It was administered in Ontario by EQAO on behalf of the provincial government. A total of 45 countries and provinces participated in the 2006 administration of PIRLS. Ontario took part in the study along with four other Canadian provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Quebec. Highlights of the provincial results and a complete PIRLS 2006 Ontario Report in English, including a breakdown of English- and French-language student results, will be available on EQAO’s website, www.eqao.com, as of 10:00 a.m.