Education Quality and Accountability Office - Purpose

Purpose

The purpose of EQAO tests is to ensure that there is accountability between school boards and schools in the publicly funded system in Ontario. Educational accountability is important to three key stakeholders: taxpayers, elected officials, and teachers. By providing these yearly standardized tests, the Ministy of Education hopes to increase the quality of education in Ontario, while also using the tests to make plans for future improvement.

EQAO tests are intended to measure the students' ability to:

  • Make sense of what they read in different kinds of texts;
  • Express their thoughts in writing using appropriate grammar, spelling and punctuation and
  • Use appropriate math skills to solve problems

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