Beyond Examinations: Rethinking of Results And Learning
Every year in March/April, parents, teachers, and students wait for schools to declare the results, especially for board results (Classes X and XII). Based on that, they try to understand and analyse how many students have done very well and how many have not achieved what they were expected to achieve. The routine is followed year after year, but not many schools employ innovative ways or intervene in a way that the results improve. While I was thinking about the board's results, a question arose: are these marks a reflection of the learning? What factors impact the learning of students? In this article, I tried to find the answer to the same . Yet marks alone tell only half the story. They reveal how many questions were answered correctly, not how deeply concepts were understood. I understand and agree that final results are important indicators of learning and achievement, but the real question is: what happens after that? The children of the next batch walk into the same classr...