Marks-based evaluation failing Indian education system; lacks innovative thinking: Experts

Marks-based evaluation failing Indian education system; lacks innovative thinking: Experts
30 May 2018
  • Top-scoring students may be basking in glory in this exam results season but noted personalities say the marks-based evaluation is failing India's education system.
  • There are not many incentives to original research, they say.
  • Most schools and higher education institutions are in a race to ensure top scores and good percentages and not on producing a good human resource, they said.
  • Here's more.

Educational assessment should change to IQ and EQ: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
IQ and EQ
  • Chairperson and Managing Director of leading biotech firm, Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw said in an era of design thinking, data science and innovation, the educational assessment must change from marks-based evaluation to IQ (intelligence quotient) and EQ (emotional quotient) based systems.
  • "Project-based experimental learning is essential," she said.
  • Creativity and innovation are taking a backseat in India's education system, experts said.

Exams have become mugging up and memory tests: Ex-ISRO chairman
Mugging up
  • Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), G Madhavan Nair said the marks-based system is outdated and creates unhealthy competition.
  • Exams have become "mugging up" and memory tests, and they are not about the extent of knowledge that the student has enriched, he lamented.
  • "Students are put through a standard course which produces a stereotype product," the 74-year-old scientist said.

Everything available on net, need more problem-solving skills: Pai
Internet availability
  • TV Mohandas Pai, Chairman of Manipal Global Education Services said, the system has become more focused on marks and not on learning or creating curiosity.
  • Pai added that we need to have more active students, more projects, lighter curriculum, more doing than theory.
  • "Today, all knowledge is available on the web; what we need is more problem-solving skills," he said.

We are producing product, not good human resource: ASSOCHAM Secretary-General
No original research
  • Secretary-General of industry body ASSOCHAM, DS Rawat said, "As long as there are no incentives on original research, you can say, we are producing products and not a good human resource from the universities."
  • Agreeing with Rawat, Nair, also said there is no scope in the present system to assess an individual's talent. Nurturing of creative thinking is needed.

50% of India's engineering colleges are bad: Pai
Poor Intake system
  • Pai said India needs 100 IITs and IIT-like institutions in the private sector with an annual intake of 2,000 seats each as done by China.
  • 50% of India's 3,500 engineering colleges are "bad," he said.
  • With a population of 6.4 crore, the UK has 95-plus universities, while Karnataka with 6.5 crore, has only 45, half of which are of "poor" quality, according to him.

Reforms must begin with universities: Rawat
Reforms
  • Pai said India needs a three-tier system, the first one comprising top research and knowledge-based universities, the second one focused on skills and learning for jobs, and the third offering a basic degree.
  • According to Rawat, the reforms must begin with universities which need to encourage creativity and original research without any disincentives for failures, and skill development to deal with real-life problems.



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