Team Herald
PANJIM: The Goa Government’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered online platform for learning, practicing, and testing for Class X students saw the overall average performance of those from government schools increased by 74 per cent, the MHRD report stated.
This year, nearly 35 government schools achieved cent percent result in Class X Board examination.
Due to the nationwide lockdown in the wake of COVID-19, the Class X and other competitive examinations were delayed, giving more time to students to prepare for these examinations.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in their India Digital Education Report released on Wednesday, has said that after successful attempt for Class X, the platform will be extended to engineering and medical aspirants across the State, who do not have access to their classes during the ongoing pandemic.
In view of COVID outbreak, the State government found an innovative way to help its students with their preparations without attending lectures physically. For this purpose, the Directorate of Education partnered with Embibe, an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered online platform for learning, practicing, and testing, for students in the State.
“This partnership began with the administering of a diagnostic test on Embibe’s Personalized Adaptive Learning platform for Grade 10 students across Goa in the month of January 2020. Through this test, approximately 22,000 students from govt as well as govt-aided schools received feedback on their unique areas for improvement, empowering them and their teachers to focus on these areas and improve their board examinations scores,” the report said.
In April the students were given the facility of mock tests for math and science subjects because the board examinations couldn’t be held on time due to lockdown.
“It has been observed that the platform helped students from govt schools to increase their overall average score by 74%, while their perfect attempts increased by 57%. At the same time, it was found that students’ wasted attempts and over-time attempts went down by 49% and 65% respectively,” the report added.
