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LEARNING LINKS

FOUNDATION

An ISO 9001:2008 Organization

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What we do...

Enhance the quality of education by supporting

Professional Development, Curriculum

Transformation and Assessment Reform

Support technology adoption to facilitate access

and excellence in formal and non formal education

Prepare youth with digital literacy skills to promote

employability and sustainability

Empower youth with skills, knowledge and attitudes

to be committed and active citizens

• Curriculum reform

• Assessment reform framework

• Usage model development

Consultancy

• NCF complaint classroom and assessment practices - NCERT aligned (elements and CCE)

• Affordable private school s - quality enhancement toolkit

• Cloud based E-MIS to drive teacher instruction and policy reform

• Cloud based teacher resources and student content – driving quality and access

Education Reform

• Training on ICT as a productivity tool, pedagogical tool and assessment tool

• Stem+ academy for Innovative Pedagogies

• MOOC for skills enhancement and certification

Professional Development

• Data analytics to drive accountability

• Learning Matrix Task Force

• Benchmarking National Learning Outcomes

• Development of GTM models

Research and Evaluation

Innovations in Education

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Adobe

British Council

DELL

HP

Google

IBM

MSDF

McAfee

UNESCO

CBSE

NCERT

NIOS

NSDC

Delhi Gov.

AP Gov.

Karnataka Gov.

TN Gov.

Jharkhand Gov.

Gujarat Gov.

Haryana Gov.

HP Gov.

Kerala Gov.

Rajasthan Gov.

UP Gov.

MP Gov.

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Key Partners

*List of live partners

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SYSTEMIC ASSESSMENT REFORMS….

An ISO 9001:2008 Organization

WHERE WHEN WHY

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WHAT WHO

• JEPC Jharkhand, SSA, Himachal Pradesh GCERT, Gujarat

• Learning Links Foundation

• Bodh Shiksha Samiti

• Third Party assessment agency

• MSDF

• An ‘Assessment reform’ program designed in collaboration with Government agencies

• Re-define assessments strategies and Deploy CCE practices – linked to increase in student achievement

Three states

• Jharkhand –

Ranchi and East

Singhbhum

• Himachal

Pradesh –

Shimla, Solan,

Bilaspur and

Kinnaur

• Gujarat –

Gandhinagar and

Sabarkantha

(Prantij block)

• 3 year project s

• 12% increase in learning outcomes by 2014-15 Endline

• Content development by 2013

• Model roll-out in schools by 2013-14

• EMIS by 2014-15

• CCE Tool-kit by 2015-16

• Improve student learning levels

• Strengthen Assessment processes as key to improved student learning

• Build institutional capacities

• Build transactional capacities

Existing Projects – an overview

Assessment of learning outcomes highlights the need for improving learning levels

•PD for teachers, School

heads, cluster and block

officials - pedagogy,

classroom/ school

management, facilitation

skills, assessment tools

and techniques

•Robust governance

structure to strengthen

multi-level/ multi-

stakeholder

accountability

channels

• Inclusion of

academic indicators in

SDP

• Parents and

community academic

monitors

• On-site structured

mentoring/ Classroom

demonstration/ Peer

teaching

• Strengthen academic

connects

•Leverage local best

practices/ expertise

• Definite and

measurable changes

in learning outcomes

• Leverage

Technology for

effective assessments

o EMIS

o CCE Toolkit & Case

studies

• Content assets based

on needs of teachers

• Strategies focus on

transaction/ delivery

• Use assessment data to

plan next instructions

• Balance teacher

instruction and activity

based approaches

• Contextualized learning

environment

Mentoring (Project

governance)

Impact Assessment

Pedagogy Capacity Enhancement

Monitoring

(administrative)

Contextualized pedagogy

to support academic line of

sight

Govt involvement in

planning, training and

post training phases

Monitoring teams/

Advisory committees/

Regional forum

Focus on Education

transformation

Sustainable and scalable

usage models

6 to 8 months 2 – 3 Academic years

Create Platform Create Linkages Create Model

CCE Program Roadmap

State Academic Body –

SSA/ SCERT

Local network – Cluster, Block and

District Education office; Parents and

community

Points of change – students, teachers,

cluster and block officials

Sustainability - Engaging the Ecosystem Periodic/ as planned

Guidelines for the projects

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Projects aim to have a positive impact on Learning, Teaching and the Learning

environment

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Situational Analysis

Capacity enhancements; contextualized

support material across curricula

continuum Onsite mentoring and monitoring

OUTCOMES

Multi-Stakeholder engagement

Impact assessment and

recommendations

Evaluation focused EMIS

Review and monitoring mechanism – at

cluster, Block and District level

Capacity building of administrators –

BRC, CRC, DEO (assessment focused)

School monitoring checklists

Building a culture of evaluation

Assessment focus at

the School level

12% increase in learning

outcomes

100 schools - teachers, HMs,

Principals

25/20 trained Field facilitators

INTERVENTION

Aggregation at

Administrative

ecosystem level

Assessment focused monitoring

checklists

Orientation – use assessment

data to improve learning lev els

System for school performance

review State Resource persons for onsite

monitoring

Assessment data

driven policy

Impact assessment and

recommendations

CCE Toolkit

Building a culture of evaluation

across strata/ domain Use impact assessment data to

design policy Increased access and data

accuracy Sustaining the culture of

evaluation

Build in-house capacities for

large-scale evaluation

Baseline & end line tests for 2

years

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EMIS – Increase data access and accuracy

WHAT IT WILL INCLUDE

Decision Making Guidance

Intelligent System

Focused on improving learning outcome

Integrated system to manage all information

WHAT IT WILL NOT BE

Data centric output

Cumbersome data input process

Infrastructure specific

Framework

Data (Input) Analytics

(command) Decision (output)

Development Phases

Phase 1

-Digitization of existing academic

data entry formats – avoid

duplication

-Basic analytics to represent

results in useful form to the

stakeholders.

Phase 2

-Correlation with other indicators

across systems

- Analytics will use all data to

suggest what inputs impact

student learning

- Real-time feedback to teacher

to improve instruction

- Provide decision making

support for multi-stakeholders

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Demonstrating the value of evaluation

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School level

Dissemination workshops

Identify strengths and weaknesses

Design strategy to address the gaps

Shift/ change teaching strategies

Cluster/ Block level

Dissemination workshops

Identify strengths and weaknesses

Modify monitoring checklists

State level

Dissemination workshops

Consolidated Strengths and weaknesses

Support Govt. to shift gears/ focus on increasing learning levels

Thank You

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MSDF Projects – LLF outreach

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