Handled well, scholarships are a win-win situation. Schools enhance their diversity and talent base and market key aspects of their school’s offering, while some families who are unable to afford private school fees enjoy a quality education.
In a highly competitive education marketplace, schools are seeking to attract the best and brightest students to their schools. For scholarships or accelerated learning program candidate selection, schools need an assessment tool that will allow them to screen and select these students.
Schools are more interested in having intelligent, creative thinkers with leadership skills and ideas, than students who have rote-learned how to perform in an exam.
Parents also expect a quality assessment process. Competition for scholarships is tough. Being awarded a scholarship to an independent school or a place in an accelerated learning program is a prize many dream of for their children. It offers the hope of educational opportunity, diverse co-curricular offerings and so much more.
When choosing a testing provider for your school there are many factors to consider:
Quality educational assessments provide the foundation that assists schools with their goal of ensuring that every student reaches their potential. As schools prepare to welcome their incoming cohort of new students for 2017, a worthy question might be: ‘What do you know about your new students and their learning?’
In an era of increased demand for accountability, targeted teaching, school improvement and individual learning plans, the relevance and importance of good data to inform teaching practice cannot be underestimated. Carefully constructed, objective and purposeful assessment is a powerful ongoing tool for schools.
Educational assessment testing enables schools to:
Educational assessment testing is a systematic approach to collecting, analysing and reviewing objective data in order to improve teaching and learning. The best assessment activities supply us with meaningful information that can be used as the basis for improving educational programs and outcomes, surely an ongoing goal for all schools.
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