Macmillan Education introduces global assessment programme

Hyderabad: Macmillan Education, one of the world’s leading publishers of English Language teaching and school curriculum materials, has launched the ICAS (International Competitions and Assessments for Schools) programme for the Indian subcontinent. Currently 14,500 schools in over 20 countries participate in ICAS and over 8.9 million students are being assessed under ICAS globally.

Speaking on the ICAS launch in the country, Yash Mehta, Director, Macmillan Education India said, “We are excited to announce the launch of ICAS in India. With this, India joins the club of 20 countries where ICAS is the preferred methodology to measure student and school performance.

This programme helps to identify a student’s strength and weaknesses in specific skill areas, which can drive better targeting of teaching and improve learning. Needless to add, schools benefit greatly from its cumulative impact on class grades.”
Starting from Class II going up to Class XII, the language skills tested include, reading for meaning in factual and literary texts, syntax and vocabulary and in science, skills of observing and measuring, interpreting and analysing data and reasoning and problem solving.

In mathematics, ICAS delves into evaluating areas of algebra and patterns; chance and data; measurement and units, numbers and arithmetic; space and geometry. In digital technologies, ICAS offers an analysis of a student’s capability in databases, graphics and multimedia, networks and communications systems, operating systems and computer hardware among other things.