The Indian higher education system has undergone unprecedented growth and expansion especially during last two decades. During this period, India had created additional capacity for a mammoth 30.5 million (estimated for 2012-13) students... more
The Indian higher education system has undergone unprecedented growth and expansion especially during last two decades. During this period, India had created additional capacity for a mammoth 30.5 million (estimated for 2012-13) students intake in various disciplines. While the scale of this expansion is remarkable in itself, what sets it apart from earlier decades of equally aggressive expansion are absence of a deliberate and conscious strategy and an organized design that could have resulted in integrating the system of higher education with higher growth trajectory. India moved to a highly differentiated academic rigor, having wide gaps between best and worst higher educational institutions. As a result a three-tiered structure has emerged that comprises highly selective elite research and teaching universities at the top, comprehensive universities and specialized institutions in the middle, and an array of highly-accessible and low-quality colleges at the bottom. While the fir...
Assessment is an integral part of any teaching learning process. Assessment practices have a large number of functions to perform in the context of the teaching learning process. Do contemporary assessment practices perform these function... more
Assessment is an integral part of any teaching learning process. Assessment practices have a large number of functions to perform in the context of the teaching learning process. Do contemporary assessment practices perform these function is a critical question to be analysed. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the myths and realities of the assessment practice in the higher education sector.
