The Maharashtra School Education division is eager to know the training outcomes in college students throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and can quickly conduct a state-wide survey for a similar. Recently, the Maharashtra State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) launched a 45-day bridge course for college kids of Class 2 to Class 8, based mostly on all essential subjects coated within the earlier 12 months. The crash course goals to make sure that there are not any gaps in scholar’s information, contemplating the Covid-19 lockdown and on-line research.
Now, below a brand new initiative, the SCERT will conduct a analysis based mostly on the bridge course to check the efficacy of the identical by enchancment in studying outcomes of scholars. However, the initiative can be restricted to college students of Marathi medium colleges.
Under this analysis, a pattern measurement of 1 per cent college students from every commonplace (Class 2 to Class 8) can be assessed by pre and publish surveys on studying outcomes of the earlier 12 months, earlier than and after the bridge course. Students can be requested a set of 10 questions from every topic.
Dinkar Temkar, director of SCERT, stated, “The bridge course is designed to help students revise important topics from the previous year. But how far is it effective and what are actual learning outcomes in students needs to be assessed and hence we are doing this research. An online form will be made available, the first 12 questions are generic and after that, depending on the standard of the student, 10 questions from relevant subjects will be asked. The same students will take the test before and after studying the bridge course.”
In the areas the place Internet connection is poor, kinds can be shared by a PDF file. There may also be a suggestions type for lecturers and principals to offer their response on the bridge course. The suggestions can be used to usher in obligatory adjustments within the course and to enhance its high quality.