The need for accountability and transparency has always been important in education, but very difficult to attain so far in India. Social auditing, a process that evaluates schools’ and curriculum systems’ academic, social and ethical impact, is emerging as a crucial tool to make sure education systems meet their goals. A more developed India will spend more resources in quality education and will also demand more accountability from all stakeholders.
By conducting social audits, schools and syllabus boards can assess their performance, identify gaps, and align their policies with societal needs. This ensures institutions are held accountable for delivering on their promises. Social auditing also strengthens collaboration between schools, parents, students, and the wider community, creating a culture of shared responsibility for educational outcomes. By measuring performance against expectations, it ensures that educational institutions remain transparent, responsive, and committed to continuous improvement.
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.
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