Tag: Assessment

Reading fluency test: path towards FLN

Y. Deepika
How do you help children with different reading abilities thrive in the same classroom? After the pandemic, this challenge became more urgent. Deepika writes about how Pratham Foundation’s Reading Fluency Test helped teachers identify students’ reading levels along with ways to improve.

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The why, where, and how of assessments

Meena Sriram
Assessments are more than just exams – they’re crucial for both student growth and teacher effectiveness. Beyond classic types of written tests, modern techniques like observations and reflections are equally effective in assessing students’ learning outcomes. Meena Sriram writes how assessments can motivate students as well as inspire teachers to refine their teaching methods.

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Leveraging Bloom’s Taxonomy for advanced question framing

Charanjit Kaur Brar
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a vital tool that aids educators in designing objectives, assessments, and instructional strategies. It categorizes learning into six levels: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. In this follow-up article, Charanjit delves into explanations for each level using photosynthesis as an example.

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Maximizing assessment effectiveness: The significance of aligning question papers with Bloom’s taxonomy

Charanjit Kaur Brar
Charanjit Kaur Brar examines the effectiveness of Bloom’s Taxonomy, a well-known framework for creating assessments, developed by Benjamin Bloom. It classifies learning objectives into six levels of cognitive complexity – remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create – and provides a hierarchical structure for classifying educational goals and encouraging higher-order thinking abilities among students.

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