Nova Scotia Grade 3 Literacy Assessment Results by Year and Board

Nova Scotia Assessment Results by Year and Board provides scaled scores and performance levels for Reading and Writing assessments administered to Grade 3 students. The dataset likely contains disaggregated results by school board, student sex, and program eligibility, with columns for four specific writing components. Assessment details are available at plans.ednet.ns.ca.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in Reading_Score and Reading_Level across different Years and Boards.
• Comparing Writing_Ideas, Writing_Organization, Writing_Language_Use, and Writing_Conventions performance by Sex or Program.
• Evaluating the impact of Adaptation or IPP status on literacy outcomes.
• Tracking changes in Eligible and Exemption rates over time.

Strengths

• Contains granular performance data for four distinct writing components.
• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Open Canada suggests official importance and reliability.
• Includes demographic and program columns like Sex, IPP, and Adaptation for equity analysis.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown across all sources.
• One source lists a last updated date of 2026-04-17, which appears to be a future date and may indicate a metadata error.
• Column names are only available from Socrata; the Open Canada source lacks this detail.

Provenance

Source

Government of Nova Scotia | Gouvernment de la Nouvelle-Écosse

Collection Method

Likely gathered from standardized provincial assessments administered to Grade 3 students.

Time Range

For each year assessment has been administered (specific years not provided).

Freshness

2026-04-17 15:28:43.845077 (Note: This appears to be a future date)

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada, disaggregated by Board.