The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) is an independent agency operating within a framework established by the provincial government of Ontario. EQAO’s mandate is to assure greater accountability and contribute to the enhancement of the quality of education in Ontario through provincial assessments and reviews of elementary and secondary schools.
The assessments developed by the Education Quality and Accountability Office, 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.
| Using the Results — It is important to emphasize that the assessment results should not be used to rank schools, they should be used to improve teaching and learning. Ranking provides no information about why scores are high or low; it invites simplistic and misleading comparisons that ignore the particular circumstances affecting achievement in each school and it distracts from addressing the more critical issues of how to improve learning for all students. |