Detailed Assessment

THE WORLD IS CHANGING

1960’s

Graduation = Job

1990’s

Specific Graduation = Job

2020’s

Graduation = ???

Training

Engineering

Medicine

Management

Journalism

PR

Performing Arts

Event Management

Entrepreneurship

Design and Architecture

Authors

Gaming

Traffic Engineering

BloggersSocial Media marketing

Global not Local

“Less than 50 percent of graduates at 148 out of 205 universities across the country found permanent jobs in 2009 - Ministry of Education, Science and Technology “

South Korea’s 18 banks are thus doubling their non-graduate intake, with Kookminand Woori Bank reserving 13% of their new jobs for those without degrees.

• America produced more than 100,000 doctoral degrees between 2005 and 2009. In the same period there were just 16,000 new professorships

“Peter Thiel (Founder, PayPal) is offering 20 students $100,000 scholarships, over two years, to leave school and start a company rather than enter college”

THE WORLD IS CHANGING

THE FUTURE IS UNPREDICTABLE

EDUCATION IS THE VEHICLE THAT CAN ENABLE CHILDREN TO FACE THE

FUTURE

WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?

BEST HOPE IS TO DEVELOP A NEW PARADIGM OF HUMAN CAPACITY TO MEET A NEW ERA OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.

EDUCATION SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HAS A CHANCE TO DO WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING

- KEN ROBINSON

JOURNEY IS ALREADY ON…

• CCE

• POLICY

• CURRICULUM

• CONTENT

• TECHNOLOGY

• TRAINING

• INFRASTRUCTURE

FOCUS ON INTERNAL ASSESSMENTS

WHY INTERNAL ASSESSMENTS?

Assessments

Parents

Students

School system

Teachers

ASSESSMENTS DRIVE THE ENTIRE SYSTEM

%Learning

EDUCATION CAN DRIVE TEACHING FOR LEARNING

Customized topic tests

• Over 500 books analyzed

• 2000+ unique tests delivered

• 5000+ tests conducted

Fractions

• 84 Unique tests

• 1200+ questions

Identifies learning gaps

Reports• Teacher Report

– Within 24 hours

– Identifies learning gaps

– Provides high quality remedial guidelines

• Student Report

– Individual report for each student

– Online access for parents

• School Report

– Comparative graph by sub topics

– Objective input for teacher training and specialization

• Address 25% + component of CCE

Improves Teacher effectiveness, reduces Cost

• Teacher Effectiveness

• Go Green!

Preparing and Evaluation Assessments To

Utilizing Assessments

Product Features

Customized to school syllabus

Diagnostic Topic Tests

Immediate Feedback

Identifies learning gaps

Remediation Support

3 – Tier framework

Addresses 25% of the FA in CCE

How will DA achieve the objectives?

DA 2011

Feedback from 20 DA schools

Positives:

• High quality questions. Very thought provoking.• The concept of DA is novel and very good.• It can be made a part of the Formative Assessment programme. Fits into

the design well.• The unified curriculum (Maharashtra and Tamilnadu) is focusing on CCE

and therefore DA will surely fit in.• Teachers get ideas on how to teach (pedagogy).• Teachers are seeing that testing is becoming simpler for them with DA.• Some schools will be putting DA into their Assessment programme the

next year.• Students are excited to use Technology.

• User names and passwords should be shorter & smaller.• The 8th test in the end should be a combination of all topics in all the subjects

taken.• Parents should be able to see their child’s reports on the system. Links

should be given to them.• Remedial measures for parents are same as given to teachers. They need to

be worded differently.• Instead of remedial measures for student reports a list of questions dealing

with the same concepts should be given for practice.• The language in the questions can be a bit more simpler.• Comprehension passages need to be shorter in English.

Suggestions:

• Teachers have to spend 2 to 3 periods to complete the whole process relatedto mobiles and this took away much of their teaching time.

• A lot of paper consumption.

Key Issues:

• Request Books are maintained in which the teachers put in their requests andthen the computer teachers put these requests on the EI system.

• DA questions are incorporated into the summative papers as well.• Teacher sheets too are being used for remediation.• Many schools have made DA a part of their Formative Assessment

Programme.• Remediation period is scheduled in the teaching plan.• Subject teaches sit in groups to discuss reports and identify teaching strategies

for strengthening conceptual understanding.• Some of the remedial guidelines are used as mini projects for activity based

assessment.

Best Practices:

DA Comprehensive

• Complete solution including people, infrastructure and technology

• DA Hub with Tablets (Math and Science) and Mobiles (English) in select cities

– Ahmedabad

– NCR

– Mumbai

– Pune – Nashik – Aurangabad

– Hyderabad

– Chennai

– Madurai

– Bangalore

DA Comprehensive

School Educational Initiatives (DA Team)Request test Coordinate with schools for scheduling test

Receive report Carry tablets and mobiles to the school

Take printed papers for English

Correct errors, if any

Upload results from the tablet

Generate results

Communicate to school on completion of cycle

What we said last year

• DA can accelerate schools’ efforts in teaching for learning

• DA improves teacher effectiveness

• DA is enjoyable for students

• DA can standardize remediation in schools

• DA provides objective assessment of learning

• DA is customized

• DA provides high quality remedial guidelines

What schools are saying this year

Summary

ASSESMENTS ARE POWERFUL MEANS TO DRIVE BEHAVIOR

IN THE PRESENT FORM, ASSESSMENTS DRIVE WHAT IS TAUGHT

DETAILED ASSESSMENT CAN TRANSFORM THIS WHERE SCHOOLS USE ASSESSMENTS TO DRIVE WHAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT