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SOLO Taxonomy cultivates the culture of lifelong learning

Our familiarity with Bloom’s Taxonomy may be greater than SOLO Taxonomy. Bloom’s Taxonomy organises learning objectives hierarchically from basic recall to creation, while SOLO Taxonomy evaluates the depth and structural complexity of student understanding. SOLO Taxonomy stands for Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes. John Biggs and Kevin Collis (1982) developed it as an educational assessment framework. Teachers use it to classify the quality and complexity of observable learner responses across five SOLO levels, such as pre-structural, unistructural, multi-structural, relational, and extended abstract. Unlike Bloom’s (1956) taxonomy, SOLO focuses on how learners respond. It helps with formative assessment, so teachers can see...

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SOLO Taxonomy cultivates the culture of lifelong learning

Our familiarity with Bloom’s Taxonomy may be greater than SOLO Taxonomy. Bloom’s Taxonomy organises learning objectives hierarchically from basic recall to creation, while SOLO...

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The nation is eagerly awaiting an exciting, people-friendly budget 2026-2027 from the new government that reflects most of their desires. It is expected that...

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We are now faced with such kind of students who is growing up with the Internet age, compared with students in the traditional sense;...

Education Policy: A Critical Review

Just after the assumption of power, the present government formed a commission to direct our education policy towards an effective, scientific and modern one...

International Literacy Day: Should not We Redefine ‘Literacy’ Against the Current Global Scenario?

Following the usual calendar, International Literacy Day has appeared again before us to make us conscious and consider our progress since we observed it...

Primary Education

Will Decentralization of MPO Lessen the Woes of the Teachers?

Decentralization goes with the modern administration. The present decision of the government to decentralize the MPO (Monthly Pay Order) system deserves thanks. But this is not everything. Already corrupt MPO system and its entire gamut can further be corrupted when it will go near the local offices as the evils get the opportunity to influence it more than before....

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The Status of Communicative English

After the introduction of Communicative English in the secondary and Higher Secondary levels how much change in teaching and learning English has taken place...

Primary Education in Bangladesh Context: How a Teacher Would be Motivated?

The context Having the change in the development of many sectors in Bangladesh, it is exquisitely denotable for primary education, where near about 100% children...

Grammar or fluency in English: Which one is more important?

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REFLECT – Non-primer Based Approach of Adult Literacy

Generally, non-formal literacy programs are primer or text book dependent in Bangladesh. Primer is the book which used for adult literacy. Here the contents...

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Bangladesh has occupied a unique position in the globe in many respects both in positive and negative senses. The distribution of new textbooks at...

Nationalisation of Education: BNP’s Stance and Promise  

A grand rally was held on 07 October 2025 at Shurawardy Uddayan on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, where teachers gathered with the...

Observing ‘School’s Readiness’: An Anecdote from Nobodhara Pre-school

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Mark Bray on Shadow Education

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Non-Formal Education, Economic Growth and Development in Bangladesh

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Secondary Education

Ranking Secondary Schools

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Dropped Out Students in the SSC are Mostly Girls

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Necessary Skills for a Secondary School English Teacher

The secondary level poses to be the most important tier of the education sector as it builds the foundation of other tiers. English stands as the most important subject at this level, which remains actually untreated in Bangladesh. Recently it has started receiving attention from the relevant corners in different forms. Language experts say an English teacher must have...

This Year’s HSC Results Tell Many Things About Our Educational Arena

Higher Secondary Certificate examination or HSC results came out showing the upward trend raising the usual question of quality in the minds of the people concerned. It is true that the figure of the results is changing because of the factors like rising consciousness of the students, guardians and teachers, spreading the coaching business from city to the village,...

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What is Happening in the National University?

A series of irregularities of the National University of Bangladesh appeared in a Bengali daily (Jugantor  April 19 to 23) drawing the attention of...

An Evaluation Technique Towards Uniformity of PhD for Future World

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Sad Occurrences at Public Universities

Public universities are gripped with anomalies and saddest incidents imprinting a slur on the highest seats of learning in the country and exercising a...

Certificate Business in Private Universities

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The Initiative to Assess Higher Education of Bangladesh

With a view to making university education in Bangladesh a ‘brand’ for others to follow, the Education Quality Assurance Foundation (EQAF) was founded by...

World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?

Mahbub Alam Prodip writes about Bangladeshi University Ranking The ‘Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)’, ‘Times Higher Education (THE)’, ‘The Center for World University Ranking (CWUR)’ and ‘The...

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