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Bringing policy to classrooms: Supporting teachers on criterion-referenced assessments in the National Capital Territory of Delhi

This webinar recording was from the NEQMAP Annual Meeting last 15-16 December 2022 under Session 2: Knowledge-sharing – classroom assessment under Topic 1: focusing on identifying students’ learning needs in post-COVID-19 recovery contexts. Bringing policy to classrooms: Supporting teachers on criterion-referenced assessments in the National Capital Territory of Delhi presented by Priyanka Sharma, Director, Research, ACER India, India.

Information about the Speaker:

Priyanka is a research scientist, passionate about the outcome and evidence-driven learning systems. She leads the research and assessments division providing intellectual leadership and expert advice to stakeholders both within and outside ACER India, besides leading different educational assessments, monitoring, research programmes, and innovations in relation to the work in the South Asia region.

She joined the education sector almost 20 years ago to understand how students learn and what they learn. Since then, she has worked as a STEM educator, teacher educator, test developer, psychometrician, and research leader at different government and non-government organisations and multinational learning companies. Her core area of expertise remains educational assessments and measurement. As a Senior Research Advisor at the National Testing Agency, Department of Higher Education, MoE, and Research Officer at CAER (a PPP between CBSE and Pearson Foundation), she led the effort of institutionalising research-based decisions to improve various practices of high-stakes public examinations at secondary and tertiary level in India. She has also worked in different capacities at the Azim Premji Foundation, Centre of Excellence-India under Pearson Assessment Centre, USA, and Khan Academy.

Author(s): Priyanka Sharma

Year Published: 2022

Language: English

Country: India

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