EQAO

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English

Proper noun

EQAO

  1. (Canadian politics, education) Initialism of Education Quality and Accountability Office, a government agency in the province of Ontario that provides accountability of the province's public education system by means of standardized testing.
  2. (metonymically, uncountable) Annual standardized testing conducted by this agency.
    Synonym: (pejorative) Evil Questions Attacking Ontario
    My son hopes that EQAO would be cancelled this year.

Usage notes

When referring to the testing conducted by the agency, the initialism is never expanded in full.