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.
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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.
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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- Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), G Madhavan Nair said the marks-based system is outdated and creates unhealthy competition.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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Reforms must begin with universities: Rawat
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- 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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