Education assessment

Deepti Gubbi and Akanksha Rajgulati, in their essay highlight what is perhaps the most important issue related to assessment, inclusion; they do so by drawing upon their work with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

In his article, Sridhar Rajagopalan refutes some popular myths surrounding assessments and shows how we can use them to drive educational transformation.

In their article titled “Assessment – unpacking the holy grail,” Chitra Ravi and Balasubrahmanian S, drawing from their experiences of working on assessment at scale, alert us to the various nuances involved in the process and why we need to keep classroom processes and teachers’ agency at the centre of our deliberations.

In the essay titled “Reconsidering assessment in the arts” Nisha Nair foregrounds the importance of processual aspects of learning the arts, the ways in which they can help develop skills and attitudes that can inform the learning of other subjects, and the role of assessment as a central tool in this endeavour.

In this issue, we focus on Assessments are central to the process of learning.

In a comprehensive piece, Jacob Tharu provides a survey of models of assessment in the country, and the ways in which they have evolved here.