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Experts weigh in on pros and cons of EQAO tests as students resume assessments

Experts weigh in on pros and cons of EQAO tests as students resume assessments

CBC
Friday, June 10, 2022 12:36 PM GMT

Many elementary and high school students in Ontario are entering the final weeks of school writing their EQAO tests after a two-year hiatus. 

The provincewide standardize tests were paused due to COVID-19 lockdowns, but returned this year in a new online format, despite calls from teacher unions and school boards to pause it for another year. The tests were also briefly halted last month due to technical issues with the website, but have since resumed.

It's all added up to stress for students and educators says Jeff Pelich, president of the Waterloo region branch of the Elementary Teacher's Federation of Ontario.

"At a time when we're coming out of a pandemic and well being and the mental health of students is front and centre, this only made the situation worse," Pelich said.

"It made no sense to us that the government pushed forward with the EQAO tests this year when they could have put it on hold for another year, address some of these concerns, or take this as an opportunity to stop doing the EQAO tests as a whole."

The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) is an arm's length government agency overseeing the standardized math and literacy tests written in Grades 3, 6, 9 and 10 since 1996.

The agency offers "independent data based on the learning expectations of the Ontario curriculum."

EQAO provides results to students who write the test. Schools and school boards receive reports about how students did on the test, "as well as contextual, attitudinal and behavioural information from questionnaires in an interactive online reporting tool."

The province's standardize testing model, has gained criticism over the years because of how much it costs — $50 per student tested, the EQAO office says — and the vagueness of the information provided to schools and students.

Ardavan Eizadirad, an assistant professor in the faculty of education at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., says the testing shows whether students hit specific criteria and at what level.

"You don't really get descriptive feedback about what you did wrong and how to improve it and we know that when it comes to learning, timely and descriptive feed back is so important," Eizadirad said.

There have also been calls to scrap the tests, something the provincial Liberals campaigned on during the election earlier this month.

A government-commissioned report in 2018, under the previous Liberal government, also recommended phasing out the EQAO tests for Grade 3 and Grade 9 students.

It also recommended an overhaul of the standardized Grade 6 test and replace the literacy tests with one that would not be a requirement to graduate. 

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