Assessment & Continuous Monitoring

The vision of Computer teaching in the state is around developing computational thinking and 21st-century skills among students and aligning with the vision of the curriculum we also designed Computational thinking-based assessments.

A significant milestone has been achieved in the state with the inaugural administration of a pre-test, marking the first-ever attempt to assess students' current computational thinking skills. This assessment holds importance as it plays a pivotal role in evaluating the curriculum's effectiveness in fostering computational thinking skills among students over the next two years.

A total of 90+ schools actively participated in this assessment. The assessment, comprising 20 multiple-choice questions, targeted four key computational thinking competencies: Abstraction, Decomposition, Algorithmic Thinking, and Pattern Recognition. With a mix of text- based and visual based questions ranging in difficulty, this comprehensive evaluation was conducted collaboratively in 22 schools by the Peepul team, while 69 schools independently administered the assessment and provided student responses. The fact that these many schools participated shows a strong commitment by the schools to helping students develop these important thinking skills.

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