How Classteacher Assessment Program Helps Students.

An Integrated Solutions ApproachAssessment Program

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”......Robert M Hutchins

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Importance of Assessment

Classteacher Assessment Program

Assessment Program

Learning Processes Formative Assessments

Learning Outcome


Summative Assessments

Remedial Inputs

Assessment that guides and encourages effective approaches to learning

Three objectives for educational assessment

Assessment that validly and reliably measures expected learning outcomes

Assessment that provides remedial inputs to help realign the learning processes

Assessment – An important cog in learning

How academic staff view teaching and learning How students view teaching and learning

What course content should be taught?What should students learn?

What teaching and learning methods are appropriate?

How can student learning be assessed?

Assessment can be the final consideration for staff in the design of the teaching and

learning process

REPOSITIONING STUDENT ASSESSMENT AS A STRATEGIC

TOOL FOR ENHANCED TEACHING AND LEARNING

In what ways am I going to be assessed?What do I need to know?

What then are the learning objectives?

Assessment is usually at the forefront of students perception of the teaching and

learning process

What approaches to study should I adopt?

Repositioning the role of assessmentImportance of

Assessment


Classteacher Assessment Program

Assessment Program

ClassteacherAssessment

Program

AC based on Bloom’s Taxonomy - Defines the goals of the learning process

Learner should have acquired new skills, knowledge and/or attitudes (KSA – Knowledge, Skills & Attitude)

Classteacher Assessment Program Bloom’s Taxonomy – Basis of AP

Cognitive (knowing/head)

Psychomotor (doing/hands)

Affective (feeling/heart)


Program

Classteacher Assessment Program consists of three solutions:

Classteacher Assessment Program - 3 Solutions

Assessment Centre

Skill Assessment Program

Assessment Devices

Automates entire Assessment process Teachers conduct multiple standardized assessments rapidly

Formative assessments to be conducted in the classroom Rapid/Real time assessment of student learning

Co-scholastic measurement of student learning Scores benchmarked against over 60,000 students around India


Centre

Powerful application that automates the entire assessment process enabling school to conduct

multiple standardized and high quality assessments rapidly and with minimum effort

• Autogenerate/pick Qs• Include subjective Qs• 50K Qs in system

Question paper creation Schedule/Administer Tests Scoring of student performance Reporting and analytics

• Assign tests to sections• Save tests to reassign

• Automatic scoring• Collation of overall results

• Comprehensive reports• Rich analysis for teachers

Key Features:

Classteacher Assessment ProgramKey Features in AC

Classteacher Assessment ProgramKey Diffferentiators of AC

Rapid Assessment Cycle

Open Architecture

Rich Analytics

Bird’s eye view

Identify development areas

Multiple report Generation

Teachers focus on lesson plans

Ability to create questions

Questions of varied difficulty levels

Addition of Subjective question

Multimedia files in questions

Hints to students

Auto-generate question papers

Randomized questions and choices

Instantaneous report Generation


Centre


Centre

Classteacher Assessment Centre in Action!

Classteacher Assessment Centre in Action!ClassteacherAssessment

Centre

Classteacher Assessment Devices

Get instant response from students to pace the teaching

Receiver connected to laptop, wireless handsets for students

Reports – By student, By question, student level, class level

Active participation of all students in class

Direct help to students who answer incorrectly

Create questions/utilize AC question bank


Devices

Devices to assess student’s understanding of topic/subtopic in realtime by the teacher; Immediate steps and change in focus can hence be achieved to shape-up student outcomes

Classteacher Assessment Devices in Action!ClassteacherAssessment

Devices

Classteacher Skill Assessment Program (SAP)

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Measures scholastic and co-scholastic skills

3 areas of Assessment Problem Solving and Creativity Science in Daily Life Application of Language

Scores benchmarked against over 60,000 students over India

A scientifically designed test that assesses a student’s overall development and benchmarks him/her against a company of his peers over a representative population

ClassteacherSkill Assessment

Program

Why join the Skill Assessment Program (SAP)?

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Holistic Development : SAP addresses holistic development needs of an

individual. This is not addressed in scholastic tests

Remedial Direction: SAP scores indicate a possible direction for remedial

action by parents or the school

Identifies natural strengths : Allows appropriate career choices to be made


Program

Clues for Career Choices!

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Problem solving and creativity

Research and development, Engineering, Management, Consultants, Technicians,

Teachers, Civil services and other public sectors

Science in daily LifeMedicine, Engineering, Research and development, Teachers, Civil services and other public sectors

Application of LanguageJournalism, Mass media (Print and Audio visual), Publishing,

Literary, Critics, Teachers


Program

Sample SAP Report

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Program

Teacher/Schools:•Minimizes redundant time spent in

creation and scoring of tests reducing workload

•Allows teachers to focus on creating learning plans & learning needs of students

• Clear view of combined & personalized attention on topics & subjects

• AC integrable with CCE

Leveraging StudentsProvides personalized practice for students

Advantage ParentsAbility to analyze trends in child’s

performance

Boon to Teachers/SchoolsAid to teachers to

develop assessments and minimize teacher

time spent

Students:• Induce discipline in students by:

– Regular assessments– Assessments on computers– Apply learning to solving problems

•Allow student to focus on application and co-scholastic skills

Parents:Ability to be directly involved in

students academics• Focus on development needs of

students as per academic progress• Encourage child for developing areas

of competence and interest• View continuous progress made by

the child on topics and subjects

Tri-fold impact of Classteacher Assessment Program Classteacher

Assessment Program


Program

Approach Teachers input in questions

Questions beyond curriculum

Mid-topic scholastic assessments

Features

Coverage

Ability to conduct multiple assessments

Descriptive questions

Instantaneous reports

YoY analysis for students

Mobile device kit for assessment

Mapping for classes 1-12

Comprehensive coverage beyond Science, Maths and English

Assessment Program - Unparalleled Features

Scholastic and Co-Scholastic assessment

Linkage to CCE

AC + HHD + SAP Asset + DA

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