e-Assessment in Education

  Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment are the three essential components of education that play interconnected roles in shaping teaching and learning and assessing the students’ learning process. Curriculum Curriculum refers to the overall plan and framework of what is taught in educational institutions. It includes the subjects, topics, learning objectives and educational experiences that students are expected to engage with during their studies. A well-designed curriculum aims to provide a structured and well-guided pathway for students' learning, ensuring they acquire essential knowledge, skills and understandings. The following process is followed while designing or planning the curriculum according to our understanding from this one- year PGDE program. Content selection Deciding what knowledge and skills should be included in the curriculum, considering the relevance to students’ lives and the broader societal needs. Sequencing Organizing the content in a logical order, buildi...

A curriculum is a master plan for selecting the instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of intended learning outcomes. According to Johnson (1967), a curriculum is a structural series of intended learning outcomes. Curriculum prescribes (or at least anticipates) the results of instruction. It does not prescribe the means... to be used in achieving the results.  The curriculum is the content or knowledge that the learners are expected to know through various instructions given by the facilitators using an array of activities and teaching techniques. It also includes different skills that will be acquired by the learners enabling them to apply their learning in their real-life situations. The different assessment measures are also included in the curriculum to assure the achievement of knowledge and to update the curriculum as required too. As the present, school curriculum effectively delineates the educational philosophies, goals,...