Reforms in Examination and Holistic Progress Card
Introduction
An assessment is a process of documenting the knowledge, skills, attitudes, or beliefs of the learner after completion of any course. This document provides information about a learner, an institution, or an entire educational system and also gauges the learning progress. So it is highly important to map this assessment system with objectives and outcome of a course
Objective
1. Design of assessment or evaluation system to assess the knowledge, skill, and capability of application/ implementation of learning.
2. To collect the tangible data about the group learner to monitor whether they have achieved the objective and outcome of the course
Current Status (Shortcomings)
1. The current assessment system is mostly based on rot learning
2. Objective and outcome of most of the courses are not well defined or aligned with the need of the course
3. Design of test/ assessment is not mapped with the outcome of learning
Suggestions
1. Courses need to designed should be need-based and objective and outcome should be properly defined and duly evaluated before implementation
2. Teacher training is a must before designing an assessment
Example: We are teaching the English language -- Now the question is how to assess but before that what is our objective of language paper is to make students learn - write, speak, listen to the language.
Another example say Mathematics- specifically, let us take matrix algebra -- Now
task1: identify the application area
2. based on that application design assessment
Now through continuous and task-based assessment, we need to design problems for this application.
But How we are assessing we are giving questions to solve -- ( To check he knows the formula and how to solve ) but we need to evaluate application capability so assessment should not be based on formulas rather application based
