Assessing Assessment
The beginning of schooling or formal education is an important event, not only in a child’s life but also in the lives of the parents. Rigorous research and contemplation over multiple parameters for assessing various options precedes the decision making of narrowing down on a few ‘good’ pre - primary schools. The next stage consists of preparing the child (and also parents in some cases) to ‘crack the entrance test’. Those who are able to clear more than one test have an upper hand - the liberty of choosing a school of their preference. A sequence of similar events may generally also be associated with a lot of things in life -getting into schools, colleges, universities, jobs, starting a business, getting a loan, etc. Assessments are an integral part of our daily life – definitely more structured for students but equally constitutive of our professional and personal lives. But do we really understand the meaning and purpose of assessments? Brown's definition of