eAA Award Winners 2026 Webinar Series
Join us for a special webinar series showcasing the winners of the 2026 e-Assessment Awards. Each session will provide an opportunity to hear directly from award-winning teams as they share the ideas, innovations, and experiences behind their recognised work.
This session will be hosted by Geordie Gibbon from EQAO, who won the CIEA Educational Assessment Outcomes award:
This project is about helping students feel confident when taking Ontario’s online math assessments. These digital assessments, created by the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO), are written by all students in Grades 3, 6, and 9. Because online testing is still relatively new, many students struggle not with the math itself, but with rushing, uncertainty, or not showing their full thinking.To address this, EQAO and the Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) joined forces to make online assessment feel familiar and approachable. A major part of the project involved teacher training. EQAO led professional learning sessions to help teachers understand the assessment format, the kinds of questions students would see. They also demonstrated how the data collected could be used to support student learning.
UCDSB paired this with fun, everyday classroom activities for students. The board organized virtual math game shows, scavenger hunts, and weekly practice questions that encouraged students to slow down, write out their thinking, and check their work before clicking an answer.
Over three years, students became more confident with digital assessments, and their math results improved noticeably.
More details will be announced as they become available.
