Student Questionnaire Responses — Grades 3 & 6

How do student attitudes change from Grade 3 to Grade 6? See student responses below about: confidence, interest, and mindset in Reading, Writing, and Math. We pool three years of student responses for most charts because this gives a more stable estimate of a school's typical pattern.

Confidence

% who agree — "I am good at math / reading / writing" — 3-year weighted average, school vs. board vs. province

Subject Interest

% who agree — "I like math / reading / writing" — 3-year weighted average

Growth Mindset (Math)

% who agree — 3-year weighted average. Note: "You have to be smart" is a fixed-mindset belief; lower is better

Perseverance

% who agree — 3-year weighted average

Collaboration

% who agree — 3-year weighted average

Home Language

"English/French is my first language" — % who agree, 3-year weighted average (data available from 2023–24 onward)

% who agree — school vs. province, Grade 3 (solid) and Grade 6 (dashed), across years

Year-to-year changes in questionnaire responses may be influenced by differences in which students responded each year. Schools with smaller response counts are more sensitive to these variations. The comparison chart above uses a weighted average to smooth this; the trend lines below show each year individually.