Digital assessment model for institutions coming soon @ team of experts has submitted a proposal on this to NITI Aayog
Colleges and universities are likely
to be digitally assessed for excellence in the near future. A team of experts
has submitted a proposal on this to NITI Aayog recently.
The
Digital Assessment Plan (DAP) has been submitted under the Atal Incubation
Centre. It aims to move the current manual assessment of institutions and
universities on education quality to a proposed digital e-assessment platform.
According
to Prof A Rajagopal and Prof S V Subrahmanya, experts in digital assessment who
have submitted the proposal, “The proposed framework will give an indication on
where an institution stands, with respect to other education quality frameworks
such as Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, International Organisation for
Standardisation, ABET model, (Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology), NBA model of AICTE (National Board of Accreditation from the All
India Council for Technical Education), and NAAC.”
“The
current system of Indian HEIs has many issues leading to poor quality of the
stakeholders’ experiences. Credibility of institutions and the education system
is always debated,” says Rajagopal. This can cover all 800 plus universities
and more than 30,000 plus institutions across India. National-level assessment
agencies like National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) lack the use
of technology support for better quality assessments and deliverables to meet
the large scale and tremendous volumes of data and information. “The drawback
is that so many assessment bodies and agencies globally are available with
their own standards and frameworks, methodologies and ways of assessing
tailored to some specific needs. Setting up of a technology platform for
conducting digital e-assessment of institutions to help assessment and
certifying bodies such as NAAC, National Board of Accreditation to make
assessments human independent is must.” The proposal aims to do away with any
instances of corruption in the assessment process and ensure its scalability.
“Once the proposal is approved, we will help come up with automated processes
and online systems for education quality assessment to NAAC, NBA etc, to
measure the quality and ranking of the universities and institutions,” he says.
The
online system will capture the learnings index, knowledge index, assessment and
quality index at every institution based on the framework defined. Experts say
that digital assessment can help institutions tremendously.
According
to Prof Mariam Varghese, former vice chancellor, SNDT Women’s University, and
an expert in digital assessment who had developed a model on this a decade ago,
“Such a system will cover the entire nation which has a high number of HEIs.
Since everything is quantified, it will also help curb corruption. Assessment
can be done faster and at regular intervals and it will be more transparent.”
Regular assessment and accreditation
is mandatory for colleges and universities in the country after notifications
from the University Grants Commission. Institutions must have grading from NAAC
to be eligible for UGC funding and for autonomy.
Source |
Hindustan Times | 12 October 2016
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