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COVID-19: Changing Workplace and Rethinking Employee Experience
The coronavirus pandemic is now a dominant issue in our lives. Despite the sporadic flattening of the curve, disruption to all aspects of life continues. From March, we witnessed [...] -
Insights on Student Learning from ASSET with Scale Anchoring
What is scale anchoring? Scale anchoring is a methodology which categorizes questions, in an assessment, based on the ability level of students who are likely to answer them [...] -
ASSET SUPERTEST – Regular Assessments for Deeper Learning (without the pressure of exams)
COVID-19 has changed many things, including how students learn. Online classes have replaced physical classes in school. Teachers who were once hesitant to try any form of [...] -
Learning bit by bit each day with one question every day
12 years and counting of ASSET Question-A-Day Which are the first few things that come to your mind when you hear the word ‘questions’? Words ‘test’ and ‘examination’ are more likely [...] -
5 key ideas behind successful teachers during COVID times
As a resident of Chandigarh, I often receive compliments on the well-organized and planned layout of the city. Being a recipient of such praise in spite of zero contribution to the [...] -
Assessing Foundational Literacy in English and the Potential Role of Technology
The Importance of Foundational Literacy Not only is reading important on its own, basic literacy is the foundation that children need in order to be successful in other areas of [...] -
Early Childhood Literacy: Bridging Research and Practice
In 2012, The Economist Intelligence Unit released a report titled ‘Benchmarking Early Education Across the World’, which ranked the state of early education in 45 countries along 4 [...] -
Understanding by Design – A curriculum framework for a computer-based science learning program
What is Understanding by Design? Understanding by Design (UbD) is a planning framework for instruction, assessment and outlining curriculum. The fundamental tenet of this framework [...] -
The state of preschool mathematics education in the Indian government school system
A student's mathematical knowledge is built on a basic understanding of numbers and basic arithmetic operations. We refer to these skills, which should be acquired by class 5, as [...]
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