ICT in Education Assessments are Biased and Inaccurate « Educational Technology Debate

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State Resource Centre - SCERT

The first phase of the Digital Equalizer Program "Resource Centre Training Model" was launched with the formal inauguration of the State Level Resource Centre in SCERT by Shri Pratap Jena, Hon'ble Minister, School and Mass Education, Govt. of Orissa. The meeting was attended amongst others by Smt. Aparajita Sarangi, Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Govt, School and Mass Education Department, Prof. Dr. Sebak Tripathy, Director TE and SCERT, Director Elementary Education and other senior officials from the Education Department. 

The State Resource Centre will serve as a feeder centre to the six zonal level Resource-Cum-Training centres to be set up by SCERT in all the three Institute of Advanced Studies in Education located in Sambalpur, Cuttack and Berahmpur (PMIASE, RNIASE and DPIASE) and three corresponding DIET’s (Sambalpur, Dolipur and Khalikote) spread over three revenue divisions. 

The SCERT Resource-Cum-Training Centre will work for the capacity building of teacher educators of six centres, SCERT staff, other teacher educators and administrators of the State Education department. 
A total of 322 people comprising of 119 district level functionaries of the education department, 136 teacher educators and 67  education department personnel from the state level, comprising of Additional Secretaries, Joint Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries and Junior Level Staff .