- Key Principles of Assessment: –
- Assessment is a part of the learning process
- Assessment requires a fear free environment for the students to present their learning at their best
- The basic objective of each assessment is to provide feedback to the Saathis for supporting students in their learning.
- Purpose of Assessments: –
- To ensure the clear understanding of concepts/skills from various subjects.
- To ensure that the students have done enough practice of the concepts/skills to build a broad understanding to connect with other concepts and of the subject as a whole.
- To ensure that the students are able to use the concept to apply in real life scenarios.
- Objectives of Student Assessments: –
- From Student’s point of view
- To measure the growth in Learning Outcomes of the engaged students in comparison to a control group of students.
- To create and maintain an online database for student assessments projecting their growth in learning outcomes at the Panchayats and block level for a period of five fours.
- To make the process of assessment shift, smooth and joyful for students and Saathis.
- From Organization’s point of view
- To showcase the educational impact of the initiatives implemented over a period of time, thereby making necessary modifications if needed.
- To help the teams take data driven decisions and develop strategies for better impact through the analysis obtained.
- To create a healthy competitive spirit among the Saathis and in the organization as a whole.
- From Student’s point of view
- Types of Assessment: –
- Quantitative or summative: –
- Verbal Assessment
- Written Assessment – Objective type
- Qualitative or formative: –
- Game-A-thons
- Live Activities
- Quizzes
- Presentations
- Projects
- Subjective type assessments
- Quantitative or summative: –
- The Need for I_got_Knowledge App in our Assessment process: –
- To conduct analysis of the assessment data for developing insights for initiatives
- To create and maintain question banks online for improving our assessment process over time
- To keep a database for all the student information in the cloud storage
- For maintaining an attendance register for all Students and Saathis online.
- To support our annual academic plan
- Types of Assessment tools: –
- Klorofeel Student assessment (KSA)
- Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)
- International Common Assessment for Numeracy (ICAN)