EQAO
The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) is an independent, arm’s length agency of the provincial government that provides parents, teachers, and the public with reliable and valid information about student achievement. EQAO also makes recommendations for improvement which educators, parents, policy makers and others in the education community use to improve learning and teaching.
The assessments developed by EQAO, which are based on the expectations outlined in The Ontario Curriculum, provide quality information on the achievement of students and augment the classroom assessment data teachers gather about individual students throughout the school year.
For more information about the EQAO Assessments, visit http://www.eqao.com/
Using the Results
It is important to emphasize that the assessment results should not be used to rank schools. Instead, they should be used to improve teaching and learning. Ranking provides no information about why scores are high or low, and invites simplistic and potenitally misleading comparisons that ignore the particular circumstances affecting achievement in each school. Ranking also distracts from addressing the more critical issues of how to improve learning for all students.
EQAO Parent Resources
Parent Homepage
Primary and Junior Reading, Writing, and Mathematics Assessments
Grade 9 Mathematics Assessment
Grade 10 OSSLT
Board Reports
2009-2010 Elementary EQAO Findings
2009-2010 Secondary EQAO Findings
2009-2010 OSSLT Findings