Muslims are recognized as educationally backward at the national level. The programme of Action (POA-1986) identified 41 educationally backward district of Muslim population and envisages paying greater attention to the education of the socially disadvantaged groups (SC, St) women, and the minorities in the interest of equality and social justice. Muslims like any other community in India, tend to be influenced by the forces of orthodox conservatism and ongoing ...
A standardized test is based on the assumption that each subject be presented with the same problem so that the resultant differences in the performance can be attributed to the differences in the subject’s level of development. For this purpose Piagetian experiments have been converted into test items meeting strict psychometric criteria by retaining the essence of the original problems. In this direction, some efforts to assess cognitive development of the ...