EQAO
English
Proper noun
EQAO
- (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.
- (metonymically, uncountable) Annual standardized testing conducted by this agency.
- My son hopes that EQAO would be cancelled this year.
- Synonym: (pejorative) Evil Questions Attacking Ontario
Usage notes
When referring to the testing conducted by the agency, the initialism is never expanded in full.