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cation. To facilitate choice of this all- survey, 20 percent of schools deputed
important institution which will shape teachers to take the test and improved
their lives, schools are ranked in 22 their scores under the parameter of
separate and distinct categories such teacher competence.
as co-ed day, day-cum-boarding, all- Moreover, in pursuance of our
boys and exclusively girls day schools, quest for continuous improvement
co-ed boarding boys and girls schools and to further distinguish ourselves
and international day, day-cum- from several publications which have
boarding and residential schools. This unapologetically plagiarised the annu-
is to avoid apples and oranges type al EWISR, this year we have incorpo-
comparisons. rated two additional refinements into
“Apart from enabling parents to the world’s largest and most compre-
choose the most suitable school for hensive school rankings survey.
their children, the annual EWISR also First, in a tribute to vintage legacy
fulfils the very important objective of schools which have a history of de-
enabling school promoters and man- cades of service to primary-secondary
agements to compare themselves with Venkatraman: improvement incentive education, we have introduced sepa-
their peers on all parameters of school rate league tables for them in each
education excellence, and strive to tion, training and career development sub-category. Your editors believe that
attain whole school improvement programmes for K-12 teachers. India’s legacy schools of over 90 years
year-by-year. The socially beneficial “During the past 12 months we vintage are sui generis. Therefore,
outcome is that the school educa- have experienced 1.5 million self- they have been assessed and ranked
tion system as a whole improves with driven ‘learning engagements’ by inter se in eight sub-categories.
students better prepared for higher teachers on the MyCENTA platform. Secondly, in cases where two or
education and eventually their work- This is encouraging response that in- more schools are ranked #1, we have
places and vocations,” adds Palety, an dicates that our objective of teachers awarded a 1+ rank to institutions
alum of the high-ranked Punjab En- being rewarded for their competencies which have recently recorded ex-
gineering College, Chandigarh and and therefore ready to learn continu- traordinary achievement under EW-
Fore School of Management, Delhi, ously, is taking root. EWISR evalu- ISR or other parameters of primary-
who began his career in ORG, India’s ates schools on a range of parameters secondary education. And despite the
pioneer retail market research firm, including teacher competence, which lukewarm response from schools to
and later went solo and promoted C is rightly given double weightage. the CENTA teacher evaluation test
fore in the new millennium year. Teachers of schools that did well in which impacts scores awarded under
A LTHOUGH THE defin- our regular CENTA Teaching Quotient er competence, we have retained the
the all-important parameter of teach-
the 30-min CENTA test — a subset of
test in the hope that a progressively
ing characteristic of
test —demonstrated acceptable levels
the globally unique
score under this parameter has im-
agements will depute representative
EWISR is that it evalu- of subject confidence. Therefore, their incremental number of school man-
ates schools across a broad range of proved. We strongly advise all schools teachers to write CENTA’s online 30
parameters, criticism that the survey to avail this opportunity to assesses minute test in the years ahead to as-
is based on perceptions rather than their actual teacher competence and sess the quality and competence of
hard data is often articulated. There- simultaneously improve their EWISR their teachers and plan professional
fore to add an element of objectivity to scores,” says Ramya Venkatara- development programmes accord-
perceptual scores awarded by sample man, a former McKinsey India con- ingly.
respondents under the double weight- sultant and promoter-CEO of CENTA. In this (September) Part I issue,
age parameter of teacher competence, Schools which deputed the pre- we present national, state, city and
since 2021 all EWISR schools have scribed cohort of teachers to write parameter league tables of all day
been invited to nominate six teachers the online CENTA-EWISR test are schools (co-ed day, boys, girls and
to take a 30 minutes (20 questions) accorded a 10-15 percent higher score day-cum-boarding) as well as vintage
English, maths and science online under the all-important parameter of legacy day schools within these sub-
test, administered by the Bengaluru- teacher competence. Last year when categories. The next (October) Part
based Centre for Teacher Accredita- the CENTA test was introduced, only II issue will feature boarding, inter-
tion (CENTA, estb.2014). CENTA is 15 percent of schools in the EWISR national, government, special needs,
India’s largest teachers online plat- league tables nominated teachers to philanthropy and Top 25 budget pri-
form which provides testing, certifica- take this test. For the EWISR 2022-23 vate schools league tables.

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