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Challenges Faced During Manual Student Assessments in Schools
Manual student assessment often leads to burnout, delays, and errors. Find out what makes it challenging and how to make the process more effective.
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How to Create a Question Bank – Teacher’s Checklist
Find out how to create a question bank that saves time, supports fair assessments, and helps you organize questions by topic, type, and difficulty level.
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Common Mistakes Teachers Make During Exam Paper Creation
Creating exam papers is one of the most important and stressful tasks for any teacher, especially in Indian schools where students, parents, and school authorities all expect a lot from those final question…
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How to Give Feedback to Teachers That Actually Helps?
Giving feedback to teachers can make a real difference, but how it’s given matters just as much as what’s being said. A conversation that feels supportive can help a teacher grow, while poorly…
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What Is Oral Assessment & How Can Teachers Conduct It Effectively?
Think about the times when students confidently explain their ideas in class, respond to questions, or take part in discussions. These moments say a lot about how well they understand a topic. Unlike…
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Gamified Assessment: Boosting Engagement with Fun
Learning does not have to be boring, and that is exactly where gamification comes in. By adding game-like elements, like rewards, challenges, and engaging narratives, to assessments and feedback, education becomes more interactive…
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Ipsative Assessment Explained: A Smarter Way to Track Student Progress
While ipsative assessment is a great way to measure student progress, it is far less commonly used in education compared to normative or other traditional assessments. So, what is ipsative assessment and how…
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Assessment vs. Evaluation in Education: What’s the Difference?
Imagine this. You spend weeks teaching a topic, using different activities to keep students engaged. Some seem to understand it quickly, while others struggle. But how do you really know what they have…
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How Criterion-Referenced Assessments Set Clear Learning Goals
Assessments should measure mastery, not just rankings. Criterion-referenced assessments do exactly that. These evaluate students against defined learning objectives rather than peer performance. This article explores their meaning, examples, benefits, limitations, and practical…
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The Role of Norm-Referenced Assessment in Competitive Exams
Is your assessment truly measuring student potential or just checking boxes? Norm-referenced assessments go beyond scores. They rank students against a broader group, offering insights that shape teaching strategies and curriculum decisions. But…
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Evaluation in Education: Why It Matters and How It Works
Evaluation is a major part of teaching, shaping both how students learn and how lessons are planned. Every day, teachers assess whether students are keeping up, struggling, or truly understanding what’s being taught.…
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The Role of Quantitative Assessments in Education: Benefits, Challenges, and Insights
In education, assessment plays a major role in understanding how well students are learning and where they need more support. One type of assessment that has become quite common is quantitative assessment. This…
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A Guide to Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)
Before we talk about why continuous and comprehensive evaluation is important, it’s good to understand what is missing in the traditional education system. In the old model, students would enroll in school, go…
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Mastering the Art of Student Feedback: A Guide for Teachers & Educators
We know that feedback is important in education, but how can we make it really helpful for students? Good feedback should point out what students are doing well and where they can improve,…
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Authentic Assessments And How It Is Changing The Way Students Learn
We grew up mugging answers and writing the same in tests without actually knowing the meaning or application of the things we learned. The focus was always just scoring the most marks. And…
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How to Use Portfolio Assessments to Track and Support Student Growth?
In today’s rapidly changing education landscape, traditional assessment methods are being enhanced with newer, more comprehensive approaches to understanding student learning better. One such method is portfolio assessment, in which a student’s work…
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Early Childhood Assessment: Look Beyond Grades
Kids start showing signs of learning and the skills they’ve acquired very early on, and parents and teachers must be observant to note the same. Early childhood assessment gathers and understands information about…
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How to Use Student Assessment Data to Inform Instruction?
According to a recent study, schools that effectively use student data to inform instruction have seen up to a 15% increase in student performance. For teachers, this means understanding and leveraging assessment data…
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The Ultimate Guide to Assessment Tools in Education
We all think about our choices and how well they work for what we’re trying to achieve. This is basically what assessment is all about. In more formal settings, like schools or workplaces,…
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A Complete Guide to Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
Every teacher wants to check the effectiveness of their teaching methodologies periodically or simply to see if the students are comprehending and retaining concepts being taught in the class. These assessments for aiding…
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Leveraging Classroom Tests For Effective Teaching And Learning
Classroom tests or topical assessments are a common device used to evaluate students’ understanding of the concepts covered in the class. They are extremely useful in gauging the effectiveness of the teaching-learning process…
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What is Education 4.0 & How is it the Future of Education?
Education has remained at the forefront of a developing and evolving world and has been a step ahead to lead this evolution. Inventions and discoveries have been the engine for world development time…
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Summative Assessments – All You Need to Know
Assessments are evaluation methodologies that help educators gauge student learning and grasp of the curriculum. Some forms of assessments are designed to test student knowledge and growth at the end of the teaching…
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Teachers’ Guide to Efficient Exam Paper Checking
Exam season is approaching! It’s usually a whirlwind for both kids and teachers, right? As educators, you understand that marking a stack of test papers might seem like an unending chore. However, you…
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The Benefits of Digital Exit Tickets for Teachers
Teachers and educators always seek better ways to gather actionable student feedback. In modern education, exit tickets are a simple, economical, and practical formative assessment method. They help teachers gauge the student’s understanding…
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How to Identify & Bridge Learning Gaps in K-12 Education?
Let’s be honest! Every student learns a little differently. Some breeze through lessons, while others might fall behind for reasons that aren’t always obvious. Over time, those little setbacks can grow into something…
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What Is Assessment Of, For and As Learning?
Every teacher wants to know if their students are really understanding what is being taught. You put in the effort, plan lessons, and explain concepts, but how do you know if students are…
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Assessment in Education – Its Types & Purpose
Checking how students are doing in school is essential, but it can get confusing with all the different types of assessments. There’s assessment for learning, as learning, and of learning. Plus, every school…
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Assessment Strategies for K-12 Teachers
Assessment strategies are at the heart of effective education, and for teachers in Indian K-12 schools, they play a pivotal role in shaping the learning journey of students. As we delve into the…
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What Makes Evidence-Based Practices in Education Effective?
Teachers always have their students’ best interests at heart. That’s why they strive to create more engaging and innovative classroom learning experiences daily. Based on the student’s learning styles, the teacher must find…
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A Teacher’s Guide to Setting an Exam Question Paper
Crafting a good question paper is like putting together a puzzle – you need the right pieces for it to work. It’s not just about testing if students remember specific facts; it’s about…
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Holistic Assessment in Schools – All You Need to Know About
Since the adoption of NEP 2020, the focus of the Indian education system has been moving away from rote learning to comprehensive development for better learning outcomes. Recently, there has been an emphasis…
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What is the Holistic Progress Card by NCERT?
As per the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) guidelines, student assessment, and progress tracking need to undergo a significant transformation. One of the key recommendations of NEP 2020 is the adoption of…
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200+ Student Report Card Remarks & Comments
Report cards are a key communication tool for teachers to convey a student’s progress beyond grades. Thoughtful report card comments provide personalised feedback that helps students grow academically and socially. In this guide,…