ASSETEI

Celebrating 10 years

International Benchmarking and Diagnostic Test

Assessed over 1.5 million students

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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.

3000+ schools have partnered with ASSET

Through multiple choice questioning, ASSET focuses on determining the level of conceptual understanding in students and not how much they have mugged up. The test generates detailed reports for students indicative of their progress and topics that require attention and improvement. The teachers receive a special report which indicates the class performance as compared to the other divisions as well as other schools on a national level.

The reports are accompanied by an instructional supplement suggesting the future course of action for both students as well as teachers.

ASSET is the scientifically designed diagnostic test, which stands for Assessment of Scholastic Skills through Educational Testing.

In India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Middle East & Singapore

Years of experience

Students takingthe test every year!

1000 10

3,50,000Schools

With an objective to inspire a brighter future through students who learn and not just study. ASSET tests students in 5 subjects.

5 Subjects

Social Studies

Class 5 10to

Mathematics, Science and English

Class 3 to 10

Hindi

Class 4 8to

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.

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.

I don’t love“studying, I dislike it.I like learning.Learning isbeautiful.”

National Test Dates

Summer Round: Aug 6th - 10th, 2012Winter Round: Dec 3rd - 7th, 2012

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 simplistic 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.

Student Assistance

Student Circular Skill Profile ChartIt shows the student’s skills based on 12 comprehensive skill nodes in 3 subjects, namely, English, Maths and Science.

ScorecardThe 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 AnalysisA thorough break-up of each skill into strengths and weaknesses, which gives a detailed insight into the student’s progress. Circular Skill Profile Chart

Teacher Assistance

A Panoramic PerspectiveASSET 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 ReportASSET helps in determining the strengths and weaknesses of the entire class to en-able further improvement.

Annual AnalysisThe yearly report depicts the improvement in the school performance each year.

Divisional AnalysisIn 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 TableASSET generates class-wise reports for each student in individual subjects. This helps identify the miscon-ceptions and forms a platform for further action.

Question Complexity IndicatorASSET 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.

Year on Year Analysis

Class English Maths Science Students 2011 Students 2010

3 -4% -2% -7% 139 63

4 5% 9% 11% 67 63

5 3% -2% 9% 69 61

6 -21% -15% -11% 60 33

7 11% 10% 15% 34 31

8 -1% -14% -3% 23 27

9 8% -14% 8% 29 25

10 30% -30% 10% 24 21

2010

2011

Significant Degradation: More than 7% decrease

Significant Improvement: Greater than 7%

Degraded: Between 3% to 7%decrease

Status Quo Maintained: Change by 3% (+ or –)

Improved: Between 3% to 7% increase

School Management Assistance

Birds eye viewAn overall look at the school’s performance, providing a picture of the school’s best practices and concern areas.

The report shows whether the school’s performance has improved over the years.

Class English Maths Science Students

3 -1 88.03% 86.99% 94.19% 139

4 114.4% 102.8% 106.47% 67

5 109.59% 91.82 105.29% 69

6 111.61% 100.64% 101.64% 60

7 - 121.77% 110.23% 121.39% 34

8 117.24% 98.25% 112.68% 23

9 122.09% 117.83% 112.38% 29

10 128.25% 121.77% 14.29% 24

Below nationalaverage

Above national average

Learning Enhancement FacilitatorsASSET 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.

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.

Students are extremely grade oriented in their development through schools in the 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.

Teacher MyBook Student MyBook

MY BOOK

MY BOOK

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, Bangalore

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

ASSET SUPPORT

Post ASSET SessionTo help the teachers understand and utilise the ASSET results and analysis in a better way, the ASSET support team members would be visiting the schools who have registered for ASSET 2012 Summer Round / Winter Round with more than 600 students. This would help teachers identify the learning gaps and misconceptions based on ASSET results.

Professional Development SessionIn addition to the above we would also be offering one complimentary Professional Development Session aimed at helping teachers in improving their skills in one of the below mentioned topics.

Remedial Plan Making

Performance Tasks & Rubric Building

Question Making

Importance Of Continuous And Comprehensive Evaluation

Understanding By Design Planning Model (UbD)

Discussions around Misconceptions – two in each subject (Maths, Science, English)

Building Meaningful Worksheets

Schools can choose one of the topics mentioned above and register before 25th June 2012 by sending an email to rashi.dave@ei-india.com

*Please note that Post ASSET Session and Professional Development session would be done on the same day within 3 hours of time span

The schools registering with Detailed Assessment or Mindspark in addition to ASSET would be offered a year round intensive pedagogical support** for the effective utilisation of the programmes implemented. To know more about these please check with our regional manager.

* *conditions apply

Awards & Recognition

For SchoolsTo 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, 2012

For StudentsThe 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

Category & Recognition

English Subject Topper for classes 3-10 A Trophy and a Certificate

Maths Subject Topper for classes 3-10 A Trophy and a Certificate

Science Subject Topper for classes 3-10 A Trophy and a Certificate

Social Studies Topper for classes 5-10 A Trophy and a Certificate

Hindi Topper for classes 4-8 A Trophy and a Certificate

Each subject Top 1% Students A Certificate of Outstanding Performance

Overall Top 1% Students A Certificate of Outstanding Performance

Overall Next 5% Students A Certificate of Distinguished Performance

Overall Next 10% Students A Certificate of Creditable Performance

Brain Boosters

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.

Everyday (Monday to Saturday), the team of educational experts sends a question to the schools’ registered email for students from classes 3-9 for English, Maths, Science and Social Studies. The correct answer to the question is then emailed the next working day with the next day’s question and so on.

Students can register for AQAD by visiting our website: www.ei-india.com

ASSET Question-a-Day

Which law of Physicis is this ?

Sam is being chased through the woods by a wild elephant that he was attempt-ing to photograph. The enormous mass of the wild elephant is extremely intimi-dating. Yet, if Sam runs in a zigzag pat-tern through the woods, always chang-ing directions, he will be able to use the large mass of the elephant to his own advantage. Which of this scientific phe-nomena is the main reason ?

Q.Science

? ASSETAmbassadors

a) Inertia

b) Conservation of energy

c) Action-reaction forces

d) Friction

ASSET Ambassador

125096

Students 3,00,000

ASSETAmbassadors

Cities

ASSET Ambassador is a platform that enables students associated with the ASSET test to interact with students from other schools.

It is a widely accepted fact that peer influence is a powerful factor in the development of young minds. Student relations enable knowledge sharing and increases their self-confidence in the long run.

In this way they can share their thought processes and ideas with a diverse student population across the country and unfold the importance of skill-based learning amongst their peers. ASSET Ambassadors get an opportunity to develop skills like leadership, problem-solving and public speaking. They also get to share and implement their ideas online.

Currently there are 1250 ASSET Ambassadors representing 256 schools covering 96 cities. They have their own website www.assetambassador.com - a social networking site exclusively for school students. This web space is a place for children to interact with their peer and counter parts all across the country; exchange ideas; build communities; discuss, share and learn.

India’s only school students’ social network

www.assetambassador.com

Ordering Information

To ensure that the schools derive maximum benefits we recommend schools to register as Full School or Full Classes in 2012.

Offer Details Registering BEFORE 29th Feb* Registering BEFORE 19th May **

English + Maths + Science Rs.400/- per student Rs.400/- per student

Social Studies Rs.160/- per student Rs.160/- per student

Hindi Rs.160/- per student Rs.160/- per student

Admin charges 10% 10%

*30% advance to be paid by 29th Feb 2012 and balance 70% by 30th June 2012.**30% advance to be paid by 19th May 2012 and balance 70% by 30th June 2012.

Note: On cancellation of the test, schools will be refunded the amount paid after deducting a minimum of 25% Advance amount paid or Rs.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.

Early bird

Advance registrationopportunity

Benefits for Principal/Management

Executive Summary Report ( soft copy )

Sectional Analysis

Benefits for Teachers

Teacher MyBook (For Full School/

Full Class participation)

1 post-ASSET and professional develop-

ment session (for participation of >600

students for EMS )

AQAD on 2 registered email IDs

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 )

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Instructions for filling up the School Summary FormThank 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 below3. 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. The full payment should be credited to our bank account so that we can ship the papers on time.

*30% advance to be paid by 29th Feb 2012 and balance 70% by 30th June 2012.

**30% advance to be paid by 19th May 2012 and balance 70% by 30th June 2012.

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.

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 e-mail address.9.If you are eligible to receive an AQAD offer, then it would be sent on the two registered ids from Mon-Sat. 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. 006405000246 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)

Offer Details Registering BEFORE 29th Feb* Registering BEFORE 19th May **

English + Maths + Science Rs.400/- per student Rs.400/- per student

Social Studies Rs.160/- per student Rs.160/- per student

Hindi Rs.160/- per student Rs.160/- per student

Admin charges 10% 10%

Early bird Advance registrationopportunity

Benefits for Principal/Management

Executive Summary Report ( soft copy )

Sectonal Analysis

Benefits for Teachers

Teacher MyBook (For Full School/

Full Class participation)

1 post-ASSET and professional develop-

ment session (for participation of >600

students for EMS )

AQAD on 2 registered email IDs

Benefits for Students

Student MyBook

Benefits for Schools

Additional discount on registering 5% Nil

with >800 students for EMS

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Assistance you can count onASSET 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.

Monday - Friday,9 am to 6 pm

Customer Support Email: customersupport@ei-india.com

Customer Support Helpline: +91-79-40269623

Head Office

613-615, J.B. Towers, Opp.Doordarshan, Drive-In Road,

Ahmedabad 380054. Gujarat. INDIA.

Phone: +91-79-40269696. Fax: +91-79-26841400

Email: info@ei-india.com

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