Tell about Indian Education System

in other words, standardised assessments were designed to suit a system instead of an individual

Government control of education/ Government Monopoly in education.

This was especially so because the former was more cost effective. In

As a result, a test that told you a little about everyone was preferred to an alternative that told you a lot about one person.

Government control of education/ Government Monopoly in education.

Therefore, policy measures today must not return to old world assessment approaches—one test to rule them all, one test to find them.

INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM IS HARDER AND LESS PRACTICAL BASED THAN OTHER COUNTRIES AND WE CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM IS HARDER AND LESS PRACTICAL BASED THAN OTHER COUNTRIES AND WE CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

Programmes like Mindspark are doing this in their centres. Instead of getting all schools to administer paper pencil tests, pushing digital infrastructure at the school level for better testing is a more worthwhile pursuit.

The current government has a strong appetite for implementation and getting schools connected to good software can be done.

The current government has a strong appetite for implementation and getting schools connected to good software can be done.

The current government has a strong appetite for implementation and getting schools connected to good software can be done.

Educational reform remains top down, and the state/national level conversation is always around aggregate data that hides more than it shows.

Educational reform remains top down, and the state/national level conversation is always around aggregate data that hides more than it shows.

Seldom will a teacher articulate how test results can be used to improve teaching. And that is the Achilles heel of test-based reform.

Unless teachers change their teaching practices, nothing will change.

The real drivers of change at the school level are the teachers and school principals, and the culture of learning they bring into schools.

But culture is difficult to engineer so it is relegated to the ‘oh and also, culture’ statement at the end of meetings.

This is worrying since heaps of evidence suggest culture impacts student outcomes.

Academia is flowing with research on social-emotional learning, and now perhaps even music, and their links to academic performance.

perform better and students whose parents or teachers have higher expectations of them perform better. Academia

If one takes a system approach, these findings seem irrelevant since there is no practical way to apply this to a system.

But if one is on the side of children, suddenly these findings become important. One feels compelled to address school culture and for that teachers and principals are the main levers.

Scrap old style tests and put in place technology for personalised assessment

Focus on data analysis and use at the classroom level