Challenges Faced by School Education System in Online Assessment in the Phase of Sudden Switch to Ict Based Teaching-Learning

Abstract

In the past few months we all have been affected by Covid-19 pandemic. From March 2020 schools and colleges were closed due to increased cases of covid-19 across India. We can say this was one of the biggest pandemic of the century. We all remain closed in our homes with proper distancing in this pandemic lot of things in our habit, lifestyle and behaviour has been changed. In this pandemic our Education system completely relies on online/ICT based teaching and learning because besides there is no alternative left for us. In the phase of ICT based online teaching and learning specifically on school level students and teachers suffer a lot of problems to adapt new techniques on such a vast level because in School level for every active classroom in transition of knowledge pedagogy takes an important role. But in online mode face to face teaching is not possible for us. And in a sudden shift towards online teaching, online assessment is also a big concern for school, teachers and government. In online mode assessment going through many challenges. In this research paper researchers address the issue related to online assessment from the point of views of students, parents, teachers, school management and policy makers because assessment is the thing which leads students towards improvement and excellence.

Learning assessment challenges from students and faculty perception in times of COVID-19: A case study

“…The second one referred to the use of different applications and technologies for conducting assessment in a reliable and valid way in times of paperless exams (Cáceres & Suárez, 2021;Yadav & Rana, 2021). Among the different challenges that this second issue implies, academic integrity was one of the major concerns (Judge, 2021).…”