• Ms Lipika Sahu
    Ms Lipika Sahu

    Assistant Director

About the Department

Surveys and assessments play a pivotal role in education by enhancing the quality and effectiveness of the learning process. They provide educators with critical data about student performance, learning styles, and comprehension levels. This information allows teachers to identify individual strengths and weaknesses, enabling them to tailor instruction to meet the diverse needs of their students. Assessments, both formative and summative, help in tracking academic progress and identifying areas requiring intervention, ensuring that all students achieve their full potential.

Furthermore, surveys can gauge student engagement, satisfaction, and overall school climate, offering insights into areas needing improvement. They also provide feedback on teaching methods and curricular effectiveness, guiding professional development and curriculum adjustments. For policymakers and administrators, survey and assessment data are invaluable for making informed decisions regarding resource allocation, policy formulation, and program evaluation. Ultimately, the systematic use of surveys and assessments fosters a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that educational practices are aligned with student needs and contemporary educational standards.
For all these activities, the TE & SCERT, Odisha, Bhubaneswar has an Assessment Cell.

Vision and Objectives

Survey and Assessment in School education is evolving to embrace a holistic and learner-centred approach, focusing not only on assessing the academic achievement of the learners but also on fostering growth, creativity, critical thinking, and essential life skills, where assessment seamlessly integrates with learning.

  • Inspire schools to review and reflect on their curricular practices and achievement of student learning outcomes
  • Promote student centric non- discriminatory curriculum which prepares students to be confident, connected and life long learners as envisaged in NEP 2020.
  • Foster the culture of openness, transparency and objectivity in self- assessment, peer assessment and external assessment.
  • Empower schools to be continually involved in systematic self-assessment which has an explicit purpose of improving the quality of student experiences and their standards of attainment.

Areas of Work

  • Student Assessment
  • Program Assessment
  • Faculty Assessment
  • Institutional Assessment
  • Data Management and Analysis
  • Student Support
  • Technology Integration
  • Policy Development
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Research and Development

Programmes and Activities

Training Need Assessment of Teachers (TNAT)

This Directorate was conducted an online assessment on 10.04.2023 through DIKSHA with an objective to identify the training needs of the teachers ( content knowledge, pedagogic skills, digital literacy and mindset). 1,51,386 (Primary and Upper Primary) teachers participated in the assessment. The report has been prepared and shared with all stakeholders. Based on the results of TNAT, all DIETs have developed content based pedagogical training module and imparted training to the teachers at district and block level.

Capacity Build up Programme on School Based Assessment

A three-day capacity build up programme for DIET faculty was conducted at TE and SCERT in phased manner. The programme was focused on linkage between curricular goals, competency, learning outcomes with assessment -the modalities of school based assessment and assessment informed instruction.

Development of Holistic Progress Card and Teacher Guidebook

The Directorate of TE and SCERT has developed the Holistic Progress Cards for the Foundational, Preparatory and Middle stages of school Education and Teacher Guidebook for the use of HPC. The Holistic Progress Cards have been provided to all the elementary schools for use on experimental basis during the academic session 2023-2024. Progress cards include Physical development, Cognitive, Language and Literacy, Aesthetic, and cultural areas focusing on all-round assessment cycle and aligned with the HPC prepared by NCERT.

Development of Learning Outcome based Item Bank

TE and SCERT developed higher order questions based on Learning Outcomes in all subjects from classes 1 to 8 ( 6109) and uploaded in DIKSHA portal for easy access of the Stakeholders . The objectives are to acquaint the teachers with Learning Outcome based higher order thinking questions and to provide academic support to teachers for developing good quality items.

Conduct of State Level Achievement Survey( SLAS)

State Level Achievement Survey(SLAS) is scheduled to be conducted on 22.03.2024 in 3140 sample schools of the state in classes 2,4and 7 in Language ( Odia) and Mathematics. The survey materials have already been prepared and printed and the Field Investigators ( 6908) have been selected. The objective of the surevy is to know the learning level of the students and design appropriate interventions for improvement in attainment in Learning outcomes and prepare students for National Achievement Survey ( NAS), 2024.

Plan of Action 2024-25

Objectives:

  • To develop higher order competency-based questions for the elementary grades
  • To use the question bank for preparation towards National Achievement Survey

Expected Outcome:

  • Workshop for Development of Question Bank in all subjects from class I to VIII (2 phases)
  • Workshop for the review and finalization of Question Bank in all subjects from class I to VIII (1 phase)
  • DTP, design , printing of question bank
  • Uploading of LO based Question Bank in DIKSHA portal

Objectives:

  • To develop tools for getting feedback from teachers, parents and students regarding use of Holistic Progress cards(HPC) in the school
  • To finalize the HPCs based on the feedback received from different stakeholders

Expected Outcome:

  • Workshop on Development and finalization of tools for review of HPC
  • Collection of Relevant data from the field (teachers, students, parents, administrators) through questionnaire and analyze these data
  • Finalization of HPC
  • DTP, Design, and printing of HPC

Objectives:

  • To develop a Teacher Handbook on Process based Assessment Tools with reference to holistic progress cards

Expected Outcome:

  • Workshop for Development of process-based assessment tools through learning activity in three stages (Foundational, Preparatory and Middle Stage)
  • Review and Finalization of process-based assessment tools through learning activity in three stages (Foundational, Preparatory and Middle Stage)
  • Uploading the process-based assessment Tool Booklet in DIKSHA portal
  • DTP, Design and Printing of process-based Assessment Tool Booklet

Objectives:

  • To develop different types of subject based questions from classes 1 to 8 for Summative 2 Assessment in the state

Expected Outcome:

  • Workshop for Development and review of Questions in all subjects from class I to VIII
  • DTP and design of questions

Duration:  January- February, 2025

State Level Achievement Survey (SLAS) is a survey that assesses children’s learning achievements in State. The survey’s goal is to assess children’s progress and learning competencies as an indicator of the effectiveness of the education system. This survey can help identify learning gaps and challenges, improve equity and inclusion, inform policy decisions, and track progress over time.

Objectives:

  • To study the learning achievements of students and the differences in achievement levels based on gender and locality
  • To identify difficult areas of learning at specific grade levels and comparison of learning levels among districts, blocks, genders, and localities.
  • To enable the teachers in developing the targeted interventions for improving the level of attainment learning outcomes.

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