How is the EQAO test different from the tests my child already does in class?
» View answer Classroom tests and EQAO tests have different goals and provide different kinds of information about student learning. Classroom tests • provide the richest and most comprehensive measure of your child’s educational progress; • cover all of the knowledge and skills that students are expected to learn as outlined in The Ontario Curriculum; • gather data from a variety of sources over an extended period of time; • assess a variety of factors—such as your child’s knowledge and motivation—in addition to the performance on a particular set of questions; • produce results that are considered within the context of all of the knowledge about your child that his or her teachers have acquired over the years; • may have a subjective component, based on the teacher’s knowledge of your child; • measure how well students have learned specific information about topics and themes that have been taught in the classroom and • measure how well students have learned specific information abou
