In education, the time has finally come for a robust and efficient system of social auditing. Thanks to advancements in internet and computing technologies, coupled with the widespread availability and affordability of smart devices, every individual can now actively participate in a social audit of their education system and infrastructure on how well they perform. This democratisation of assessment brings many of benefits.
Firstly, smart devices enables students, parents, teachers, and the public to perform self-evaluations and social audits and to access real-time data and insights from such assessments. This ensures transparency and accountability in education. Gone are the days when information was restricted to the confines of school managements or the bureaucracy. Now, anyone with a smartphone can contribute to collective social oversight. Secondly, since nobody can skew the results to their advantage, and since no one can influence all the other participants, we get more reliable data from such audits.
Measureme®, our self-assessment and audit platform for foundational skills and knowledge, proposes this novel concept. It combines short, simple, and curriculum-agnostic self-assessments with randomised social audits. Measureme® uses the concept of integrity score to ensure all stakeholders get reliable data and insights from these audits. All this makes Measureme® the perfect companion for the education of the future as it fosters transparency and improves accountability in education, for the benefit of the community.