Assessment Technique to Address the Diversity of Students

The innovative practice full paper presents an Assessment mechanism that caters to diverse students in a Higher Education System. Assessment poses challenges in evaluating a student in the higher education system. The students are generally from various social, economic, and educational backgrounds. Measuring the course outcomes will neither help the student pass the course nor help achieve the stated targets by the teacher. This paper presents an assessment mechanism that helps attain course outcomes based on the diversity of students and their level of understanding. The proposed assessment mechanism is implemented in an undergraduate course, and the results are compared in a detailed and comprehensive manner with the traditional outcome-based assessment. It is observed that the proposed assessment mechanism is suitable for higher education institutes in dealing with various types of students and helps improve their performance in a given course.