Registrations are invited for Online Course on Assessment Literacy for Teachers and Educators by TISS. The course is organised around four units that engage student teachers to reflect and engage with ideas related to assessment and evaluation.

About TISS

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), established in 1936, is India’s premier University for applied social science research and education. The Institute is a deemed university and is fully funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India.

Course Details

This course responds to the needs expressed by practitioners and researchers to help understand deeply how assessment is to be visualised and implemented to ensure that curricular goals are met and not reduced to routine tasks. As other education policy documents, the National Curriculum Framework (NCrF) 2023 acknowledges the need to change the ‘assessment culture’ (p.17) and ensure that assessment of learning (AoL) shifts to assessment for learning (AfL) and assessment as learning (AaL) to focus on ‘core capacities and Competencies’ (p.17) and not rote memorisation. 

With the current focus on assessment and outcomes-based education (OBE), this course is especially important for teachers and leaders in the education sector. With PARAKH and such initiatives and the adoption of new boards and curriculum even in Goverment schools such as IB curricula being adopted by Brihanmumbai Muncipal Corporation schools and such the need for teachers to change their assessment and teaching practices is imperative.

The course is organised around four units that engage student teachers to reflect and engage with ideas related to assessment and evaluation. An attempt is made to integrate affective experiences with the thinking and reflection on the tools that mediate assessment and evaluation. Suitable tasks within each unit enable structure experiences that unfold the variety of issues associated with the educational constructs widely used.

Units

  • Unit 1: Assessment: Purposes and Contexts.
  • Unit 2: Reliability and Validity across Assessment Types and Tools.
  • Unit 3: Practical and Ethical Considerations in Assessment.
  • Unit 4: Assessment Design Principles: Binding Them All.

Eligibility

Learners must

  • Possess a graduate degree.
  • Have access to internet and a computing device (laptop/mobile/tablet).
  • Have access to at least 2-3 students (any age) that they can implement assessment activities with.

Duration

October 15-November 27, 2024.

How to Register?

Interested individuals can register themselves online via this link.

Contact

Email: tissx[at]tiss[dot]edu

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