ASSET EI. Assessed over 1.5 million students. International Benchmarking and Diagnostic Test. Celebrating 11 years

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1 ASSET EI Celebrating 11 years International Benchmarking and Diagnostic Test Assessed over 1.5 million students

2 AS schools have partnered with ASSET S N Kansagra School, Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School, K.K.Nagar, Jamnabai Narsee School, Delhi Public School, Bhavan s Rajaji Vidyashram, St. George s School, TVS Matriculation, Sri Kumaran Children s Home, South Point School, The Indian High School, Bishop Cotton Boys School, Gundecha Education Academy, Carmel High School, Basaveshwarnagar, Manovikas English Medium School, Smt. Ramdevi Sobhraj Bajaj Arya Vidya Mandir, Juhu, Sunbeam English School, Bhagwanpur, St. Paul s School, The Heritage School, Lady Andal Venkatasubba Rao Matriculation Higher Secondary School, St. Paul s English School, J. P. Nagar, Presidency School, Sishu Griha Montessori, Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Udgam School for Children, Vasudev C. Wadhwa Arya Vidya Mandir, Delhi Public School Bangalore, Ranganathan Montford, Christ Church Diocesan School, Arya Vidya Mandir, R N Podar School, Don Bosco School, Jasudben M L School, Chinmaya Vidyalaya, K D Ambani Vidyamandir, The Shri Ram School, Rachana School, Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial School, The PSBB Millennium School, Sishya School, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan s V.M. Public School, Sri Kumaran Public School, R.K. Puram, Lourdes Convent High School, Bala Vidya Mandir, St. Kabir School, The Shishukunj International School, Venkateshwar International School, Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls School, St. John s High School, The Jain International School, M V Dhulashia and JHC Trust Schools, A M M Matriculation Higher Secondary School, St. Teresa s Convent School, Maria s Public School, Sunbeam School, Sindhi High School, Navrachana School, Anand Niketan School - Satellite. Delhi Public School, B - North Bangalore, Innisfree House School, Akshar, Newtown, Guru Gobind Singh Public School, Billabong High International Group of Schools, Bombay Scottish School, Jamnabai Narsee School, Podar International School (ICSE) Kalyan, R N Podar School, Bluebells School International, Doon International School, La Martiniere Girls College, Mayo College, Tagore International School (East of Kailash), Welham Boys School, Don Bosco School Northfield Kohima, South Point School Guwahati, St. John s International Residential School, The Rajkumar College... and more.

3 Sridhar Rajagopalan Managing Director Sudhir Ghodke Director B.Tech (IIT Madras), PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad) Sridhar worked with Tata IBM for three years before he joined Eklavya Education Foundation. He was part of the team that was responsible in setting up Eklavya School and he was instrumental in the conceptualization, implementation and running of the Eklavya Institute of Teacher Education. An important trend that is already gaining momentum in Education is research on how children learn, what they learn well, where there are gaps, and how teachers can fill those gaps to make the class effective for every child. In order to accomplish this, accurate measurement of what each child is learning and providing this information in an actionable form to every teacher is essential. An assessment must not merely look at memory but higher order thinking skills as well. It should also show benchmarking information in comparison to other schools and classes. BE (Mech), PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad) Sudhir Ghodke was a part of the team that started Eklavya Education Foundation. He worked for a year with Tata Engineering in Jamshedpur and Kolkata as a Sales Engineer before his PGDM and with ITW-Signode, Hyderabad as Key Customers Manager, handling the top 20 customers of the company after completing his PGDM. As a part of the core team of Eklavya, he focused on curriculum development, architectural design and facilities planning, parenting workshops and writing articles. ASSET has become the benchmark for schools that want to check how well their students are learning, where are the gaps and whether their efforts in the past year has helped them improve. This information is invaluable for principals, teachers, parents and students to get a clear and unambiguous picture along with clear and actionable feedback on how to improve. ASSET has been doing benchmarking, assessing higher order thinking, and providing results in an actionable form to teachers so that ongoing learning improvement can take place. In India, Nepal, Bangladesh, the Middle East & Singapore Schools Years of experience 3,50,000 Students taking the test every year!

4 5 Subjects With an objective to inspire a brighter future through students who learn and not just study, ASSET tests students in 5 subjects. Class 3 to 10 Mathematics, Science and English 5 10 Class to Social Studies 4 8 Class to Hindi

5 Assessments are usually meant to serve three main purposes to enable students to determine their level of mastery in the concepts, to provide the educators with a feedback on the effectiveness of their teaching and to provide data which can help deliver focussed instructions. ASSET aims to enable effective education for all stake holders. Students With ASSET, students can obtain an accurate feedback on their strengths and weaknesses and further improve their skills by themselves being involved in the learning as well as evaluation process. Teachers With ASSET, teachers can monitor and evaluate each student of their class and benchmark the performance with other divisions as well as schools in the country. Based on progress reports, teachers can get a better insight into the progress of each child and aim towards continuous skill improvement. Schools ASSET enables schools to keep an eye on the overall progress of the students and scale their performance in comparison to other schools in the country. The performance and effectiveness of the teachers can also be tracked through the detailed reports. I don t love studying, I dislike it. I like learning. Learning is beautiful. National Test Dates Summer Round: Aug 5th - 9th, 2013 Winter Round: Dec 2nd - 6th, 2013

6 The Evaluation Process Report cards in school usually show the marks and any inconsistency indicates that the student has gone wrong. However, neither the student nor the teacher can pin-point the root cause behind the irregularity in performance, thus limiting further improvement. ASSET believes in continuous improvement by solving the core problems. With ASSET, the evaluation is presented in the form of a detailed report for both students as well as teachers. The comprehensive analysis has a simple format and gives relevant information on the growth of the students. The reports are easy to infer and can be easily understood by students and teachers alike. The colour-coded format of the reports organizes the data and enables effortless browsing. The reports include a teacher as well as student centric report respectively the Teacher MyBook and the Student MyBook. ASSET, through extensive research in the field of learning, has made sure students, educators and parents can reap utmost benefits out of the evaluation process through the following assistance reports.

7 Circular Skill Profile Chart Number Sense, Computations and Basic Arithmetic M Extended Reasoning E Literal Comprehension E Intermediate Concepts, Geometry and Algebra M Grammar Usage E Word and M Application Problems Vocabulary in Context E M Problem Solving, Advanced Problems S Knowledge of Basic Science Facts S S Conceptual Understanding and Comprehension S Original Thinking Reasoning and Analysis Skills Student Assistance Student Circular Skill Profile Chart It shows the student s skills based on 12 comprehensive skill nodes in 3 subjects, namely, English, Maths and Science. Scorecard The analysis, through objective questioning, provides a remedial tool to point out where the student is lacking in terms of clarity of concepts as well as silly mistakes. Strengths and Weaknesses Analysis A thorough break-up of each skill into strengths and weaknesses, which gives a detailed insight into the student s progress.

8 Teacher Assistance A Panoramic Perspective ASSET provides a bird s eye view of the entire school s performance and the positive attributes as well as areas which need to be worked on. Skill Performance Report ASSET helps in determining the strengths and weaknesses of the entire class to enable further improvement. Annual Analysis The yearly report depicts the improvement in the school performance each year. Divisional Analysis In order to benchmark performance, ASSET provides sectional analysis of each division of a grade in order to weigh the performance in comparison to other divisions in the same school as well as nationally. Class Performance Table ASSET generates class-wise reports for each student in individual subjects. This helps identify the misconceptions and forms a platform for further action. Question Complexity Indicator ASSET points the 3 questions that the students found most difficult to attempt as well as the ones they found simple to crack. This facilitates the teachers to further improvise on the questions students are tested on.

9 Bird s eye view % % 100% % % % % 96.56% % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % 28 Year-on-Year Analysis The report shows whether the school s performance has improved over the years. 5 0% -4% -9% % -6% -14% % -20% -10% % -8% -25%

10 Learning Enhancement Facilitators ASSET includes a range of services to improve learning. These have been developed through extensive research and consist of the Teacher MyBook and the Student MyBook. Teacher MyBook Teachers can mark students on their performance; however, often they cannot point out the precise limitations in the students learning. The ASSET Teacher MyBook is a customized folder for each subject-teacher on the performance of every class. It points out the gaps in learning in each student and simultaneously provides reference material recommending ways to augment the learning process. MY BOOK Student MyBook Students are extremely grade oriented in their development through schools for fear of being reprimanded by their parents and teachers. However, this does not help them in their progress as they are simply not aware of the root cause behind the gaps in learning. The ASSET Student MyBook presents the students with a customized feedback and breakdown of their performance. Individual test results are accompanied by a detailed analysis listing out the students strengths and weaknesses. The students also receive practice tests concentrating on their weak points. The answers to the tests are also made available, with elaborate explanations, to enhance the self learning process and to equip the students with skills to avoid any flaws in future. MY BOOK

11 ASSET MyBook in my opinion is one of the best concepts of ASSET. It is a brilliant idea especially for weak students and helps them to get better clarity of concepts. It enriches students with a lot of productive knowledge. After seeing the questions and solving them, I got a lot of knowledge and I am really thankful to it. Shishir Garg, The Scindia School, Gwalior It helped me identify my weak areas. I could see why I had made mistakes. It was a great idea and is perfect for providing personalized feedback for weak students. I learned from the mistakes I made in the test. It also showed my strengths, so it gave me a scope for my scholastic talents. Dhruv Devulapalli, India International School, Bengaluru It contains questions with detailed answers for us to improve especially in our weak areas. It s because of these personalised analysis report and practice questions that I have managed to improve in those areas which I used to find very hard. Jai Tatia, Manovikas English Medium School, Margao

12 ASSET SUPPORT Post ASSET Session To help teachers understand the ASSET results and analyse it in a better way & utilise the same, the ASSET support team members would be offering a 3 hour Post ASSET session for schools, which. have registered for ASSET 2013 with more than 600 students for the Summer Round / Winter Round. This would help teachers identify the learning gaps and misconceptions based on ASSET results. The ability to ask questions that make students think is the hallmark of a good teacher, providing the teacher the unique opportunity to exercise her skills to create something original. Therefore during the Post ASSET workshop teachers will also get exposure to the importance of high level cognitive questions which require students to use higher order thinking / reasoning skills, which subsequently lead to real understanding. AS

13 Awards & Recognition For Students The objective of ASSET is to give accurate feedback to every student and school about the areas of strengths and weaknesses and thus help them do even better. This is why every student participating in ASSET is awarded a certificate. However, ASSET tests are taken by thousands of students across the country, and doing well in the ASSET test is a creditable achievement. To recognize this achievement and inspire students to aspire for academic excellence, top-performing students receive awards For Schools To recognise the schools and ASSET Coordinators efforts to promote the vision of Learning with Understanding among their students by implementing ASSET, the following awards would be given away after the end of each round Certificate of Recognition for Schools* Certificate of Recognition for ASSET Coordinator * On registering for ASSET before 16th May, 2013 Category & Recognition English Subject Topper for classes 3-10 Maths Subject Topper for classes 3-10 Science Subject Topper for classes 3-10 Social Studies Topper for classes 5-10 Hindi Topper for classes 4-8 Each subject Top 1% Students A Trophy and a Certificate A Trophy and a Certificate A Trophy and a Certificate A Trophy and a Certificate A Trophy and a Certificate A Certificate of Outstanding Performance Overall Top 1% Students Overall Next 5% Students Overall Next 10% Students A Certificate of Outstanding Performance A Certificate of Distinguished Performance A Certificate of Creditable Performance

14 Brain Boosters ASSET Question-a-Day Which law of Physics is this? Science Q. Sam is being chased through the woods by a wild elephant that he was attempting to photograph. The enormous mass of the wild elephant is extremely intimidating. Yet, if Sam runs in a zigzag pattern through the woods, always changing directions, he will be able to use the large mass of the elephant to his own advantage. Which of this scientific phenomena is the main reason?? a) Inertia b) Conservation of energy c) Action-reaction forces d) Friction The ASSET questions have been widely recognized for their ability to trigger the thinking process in children and to expose them to a fresh and unique way to check their own understanding of key concepts covered in the school curriculum. ASSET Question-A-Day (AQAD) are thought provoking questions that aim to make students more accustomed to skill-based questions on a regular basis. The benefits envisaged through ASSET Question-a-Day are Exposure to good questions that trigger real learning. A useful daily regimen to dissuade last minute cramming and encourage regular interaction with innovative learning material. A large compilation of good questions at the end of the year that can be used in multiple ways. Every day (Monday to Saturday), the team of educational experts sends a question to the schools registered for students from classes 3-9 for English, Maths, Science and Social Studies. The correct answer to the question is then ed the next working day with the next day s question and so on. Students can register for AQAD by visiting our website: ASSET Ambassador India s only school students social network Students ASSET Ambassadors ,00, Cities ASSET Ambassador is a platform that enables students associated with ASSET test to interact with students from other schools. Students get the opportunity to share their thought processess and ideas with a diverse student population across the country and unfold the importance of skill-based learning amongst the peers. India s only school students social network -

15 DUKE TIP-INDIA Educational Initiatives & DUKE TIP present the Talent Search in India Duke is a global leader in identifying academically gifted students and providing them with opportunities to support their development. Duke TIP in partnership with Educational Initiatives, is proud to announce the 4th year of Talent Search in India for class 7 students. Duke TIP will provide families and educators an opportunity to identify and support academically gifted students in India. In ASSET-taking schools, 7th standard students who score at or above 95 percentile on the Science, Math or English section of the ASSET test will be invited to participate in the Talent Search. Eligibility is an Honour: Only the top 5% of all the ASSET-taking 7th standard students in India and UAE qualify for the talent search. Participation is Rewarding: Gifted students need special motivation and support. The talent search helps them grow by providing the opportunity for above-level testing, feedback on their abilities, resources, and encouragement to continue challenging themselves educationally. BENEFITS * The opportunity to attend the most coveted Summer Studies Programme in India and/or U.S.A. * Being among the top 1% of all the ASSET taking students of Grade 7 STUDY TOPICS LIKE... * Forensic Science * Cryptography * Environmental Engineering * Enterpreneurial Leadership * Creative Writing, etc. * Learn from the subject experts from U.S.A. * Being a part of the largest Gifted Students community

16 Ordering Information To ensure that the schools derive maximum benefits we recommend schools to register as Full School or Full Classes in Early bird Advance registration opportunity Offer Details Registering BEFORE 28th Feb* Registering BEFORE 16th May ** English + Maths + Science Rs.400/- per student + Tax Rs.400/- per student + Tax Social Studies Rs.160/- per student + Tax Rs.160/- per student + Tax Hindi Rs.160/- per student + Tax Rs.160/- per student + Tax Admin charges 10% 10% Benefits for Principal/Management Executive Summary Report ( soft copy ) x Sectional Analysis Benefits for Teachers Teacher MyBook (For Full School/ Full Class participation) 1 post-asset and professional development session (for participation of >600 students for EMS ) Benefits for Students Student MyBook Benefits for Schools Additional discount on registering 5% Nil with >800 students for EMS Note: The schools registering for Detailed Assessment or Mindspark alongwith ASSET are entitled to Intensive Pedagogical sessions customized for the school ( Conditions Apply ) *30% advance to be paid by 28th Feb 2013 and balance 70% by 30th June **30% advance to be paid by 16th May 2013 and balance 70% by 30th June Note: On cancellation of the test, schools will be refunded the amount paid after deducting a minimum of 25% advance amount paid or `10,000/- whichever is higher. Refund policy will be applicable only if the test is cancelled before shipment of the question papers - after which no refund will be done. In case of any disagreement, decision of EI will be final and operative.

17 To Educational Initiatives Pvt. Ltd , J.B Tower, Opp. Doordarshan Drive In Road, Ahmedabad Phone: Fax: School Summary Form 2013 WE DO NOT ACCEPT CASH. PLEASE DO NOT HAND OVER ANY CASH TO OUR REPRESENTATIVES School Code Registration Date d d m m y y For the items marked (*), please read the instructions overleaf carefully before filling. 1.SCHOOL NAME 2.PHONE NO. 3.FAX NO. 4.SCHOOL ID 5.WEBSITE 6.PRINCIPAL Name: 7.COORDINATOR Name: Mobile: Mobile: 8.SCHOOL ADDRESS Town/City Pin 9.AFFILIATION BOARD Total Students (classes 3 to 10) 10.ASSET TEST DATES Summer Round- 5th to 9th Aug 2013 Lowest Class Highest Class Winter Round - 2nd to 6th Dec PARTICIPATION DETAILS Full School (All classes) Full Class/Classes Subjects Rate per subject Total Students Total Amount English + Maths + Science *Rs.400 Social Studies *Rs.160 NA NA Hindi *Rs.160 NA NA NA Gross Total Less: 10% Administration Cost Less: 5% discount on Gross amount for registering with >800 students for Eng+Maths+Science Net Amount Payable to Educational Initiatives * ( Tax as applicable) Add: 12.36% service tax, payable if payment is being made by direct cash deposit into EI s Bank account Total Advance 30% (*Rate exclusive of all taxes) Please find enclosed ( tick and fill ) a Multi-City Cheque no dtd / / for d d mm yy Rs. drawn on Bank, branch a Demand Draft no dtd / / for d d mm yy Rs. drawn on Bank, branch signed and stamped ICICI Bank Pay-In-Slip dtd / / for d d mm yy Rs. of Educational Initiatives Pvt Ltd s ICICI Bank account No (PAN NO. AAACE9834B) 2%. Rs Name (Please mention the name of Trust/Entity deducting TDS- Please refer general instruction points 7) PLEASE DO NOT PAY CASH, EI WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CASH PAYMENTS MADE BY SCHOOLS Date d d m m y y Principal/Coordinator Sign with school stamp

18 Instructions for filling up the School Summary Form Thank you for registering for ASSET. We request you to carefully read and follow these instructions which will help us process your registration quickly and in an error-free manner. General Instructions: 1. Retain a copy of this form while submitting the original to Educational Initiatives (EI) 2. A test administration fee may be retained by the school to cover test administration expenses including invigilation charges, DD Charges, courier/ postage charges, etc as prescribed below 3. Please mention the school code (provided by EI if the school has taken ASSET earlier) in the space provided in the top left corner. Schools registering for the first time may leave the school code blank. 4. Fees from the students should be charged as per the offer availed by your school. 5. On cancellation of the test refund for the registrations done under Full Class / Full School participation module will be done as per the details mentioned in the table below. 6. Papers will be shipped only after full payment has been received by EI. 7. In case, school is deducting TDS, applicable section for TDS is 194C of Income Tax Act. Please mention name of trust/entity deducting TDS. At the time of payment, please give proper details of proposed TDS deduction with PAN/TAN details. Penal action/interest can be charged by income tax department, if TDS is not deposited/tds certificate is not issued in time. 8.Subject to Ahmedabad Jurisdiction and Terms & Conditions and Policy of EI. 9. Currently, service tax may be exempt for some schools (vide Notifi: ST/ ) if the payment is directly made by school/ governing trust by own multicity cheque or DD sent to EI along with the SSF or by electronic fund transfer from the school/trust s bank account, and not by cash/demand draft/ direct deposit into EI s bank accounts. 10. The school needs to send the answer sheets for evaluation at their own cost on the given address- Seshaasai eforms Pvt. Ltd., C/O. Educational Initiatives Pvt. Ltd., Unit-18, Lalwani Industrial Estate, Katrak Road, Wadala, Mumbai Early bird Advance registration opportunity Offer Details Registering BEFORE 28th Feb* Registering BEFORE 16th May ** English + Maths + Science Rs.400/- per student + Tax Rs.400/- per student + Tax Social Studies Rs.160/- per student + Tax Rs.160/- per student + Tax Hindi Rs.160/- per student + Tax Rs.160/- per student + Tax Admin charges 10% 10% Benefits for Principal/Management Executive Summary Report ( soft copy ) x Sectional Analysis Benefits for Teachers Teacher MyBook (For Full School/ Full Class participation) 1 post-asset and professional development session (for participation of >600 students for EMS ) Benefits for Students Student MyBook Benefits for Schools Additional discount on registering 5% Nil with >800 students for EMS *30% advance to be paid by 28th Feb 2013 and balance 70% by 30th June **30% advance to be paid by 16th May 2013 and balance 70% by 30th June Note: On cancellation of the test, schools will be refunded the amount paid after deducting a minimum of 25% advance amount paid or `10,000/- whichever is higher. Refund policy will be applicable only if the test is cancelled before shipment of the question papers - after which no refund will be done. In case of any disagreement, decision of EI will be final and operative. Item-wise Specific Instructions: 1.Please fill the school name legibly in the blocks provided, writing one letter per block. Leave a blank box between each word. The school name will appear on all certificates, as written here, followed by the town name in brackets. 4.You will receive communications, automatic updates and dispatch details on your address. Please do not pay by cash or local cheque. You may pay by multi-city cheque, or demand draft or deposit the amount directly into the Educational Initiatives Pvt. Ltd. ICICI Bank account No in any ICICI Bank branch in your city. Multi-city cheques and demand drafts must be drawn in favour of Educational Initiatives Pvt. Ltd (payable at Ahmedabad)

19 Assistance you can count on ASSET believes in assistance at all levels of education. Our well-trained support staff is available to solve all your queries and make sure the ASSET year round engagement program runs smoothly at your school. Speak directly to one of our Customer Support officer or Regional Manager and get the speedy help you need to get the most out of our services. Customer Support Helpline: Monday - Friday, 9 am to 6 pm Customer Support customersupport@ei-india.com

20 Head Office , J.B. Towers, Opp.Doordarshan, Drive-In Road, Ahmedabad Gujarat. INDIA. Phone: Fax: Bengaluru Delhi Mumbai Hyderabad Bangladesh Dubai Kuwait Singapore USA