Originally conceived as a way to ensure accountability in the system and ostensibly improve education, EQAO tests are in fact an obstacle to quality education. EQAO tests are based on a very narrow definition of accountability: student achievement on one day on one written test
Recently with the Ministry of Education launched, with no prior notice, a new website, the School Information Finder. It’s a site that pulls together information about schools, their EQAO scores, and selective demographic characteristics of students and their families.
The Education Act requires individual education plans (IEPs) for students identified as exceptional through an identification, placement, and review committee (IPRC).
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation provides a vast array of programs, services, and resources to educators in Canada and around the world.
ETFO has never supported the standardized tests administered by the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO). Your federation has been speaking out against them from the time the tests were first introduced.