Student Questionnaire — Grade 3

Select a school to see how students responded — confidence, interest, and enjoyment in Reading, Writing, and Math.

Confidence — % who agree

"I am good at math / reading / writing" — 2024–25, school vs. board vs. province

Subject Interest — % who agree

"I like math / reading / writing" — 2024–25

Growth Mindset (Math) — % who agree

2024–25 — Note: "You have to be smart" is a fixed-mindset belief; lower is better

Home Language

"English/French is my first language" — % who agree, 2024–25 (data available from 2023–24 onward)

Trends Over Time

% who agree — school vs. board vs. province 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.

Understanding Questionnaire Sample Size

Why questionnaire response counts matter

Student responses to the questionnaire are voluntary. The number of respondents varies across schools and years, depending on how many students chose to participate, were absent, or for whom data was recorded.

How response size affects reliability: With 30 questionnaire respondents, the percentage who agree with a statement can move about ±18 points from year to year purely by chance. With 60 respondents, the range narrows to about ±13 points. With 100+ respondents, variation is roughly ±9 points. When fewer students respond, individual students' answers have a larger influence on the overall percentage.

What this means in practice:

A school with 25 respondents that shows 75% agreement one year and 55% the next may not reflect a real change in student sentiment — an 20-point shift is within normal variation for that size.
Comparing results across years is more reliable when response counts are similar and large.
Broad patterns across multiple years are more meaningful than single-year changes for schools with small response counts.

Note on "Province" benchmark: The provincial comparison reflects the average for English-language publicly funded schools in Ontario. French-language school results are tracked separately and are not included in this benchmark.