11gifted students shine as the city’s ASSET Talent Scholars
o 347 gifted students have earned the title of ASSET Talent Scholars by topping the Duke
TIP ASSET Talent Search in India and UAE
o Highest performers in Mathsfrom Class 7 fromDehradun city: ShreyTibrewal from
Welham Boys' School
o Highest performers in English from Class 7from Dehradun city: SanjumDhaliwal
o Highest performers in Sciencefrom Class 7 from Dehradun city: PranavGoel
o Highest performers in Mathsfrom Class 8 from Dehradun city: AbhirajLamba from The
Doon School
o Highest performers in Sciencefrom Class 8 from Dehradun city: EkamveerGuron from
The Doon School
April 2015, Dehradun:Educational Initiatives (EI), one of India’s leading Assessment and
Research companies in the education sector has recently announced results of its ‘Duke TIP
ASSET Talent Search Program’, a nationwide revolutionary innovation launched in August 2014
in association with Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP), USA.The program
seeks to identify the hidden and finest scholastic talents among students of Mathematics,
Science and English subjects.
This year, 347 gifted students topped this Talent Search in India by participating in its national
diagnostic test conducted on November 30, 2014, out of which 11 students are from
Dehradun.These toppers have earned the title of ASSET Talent Scholars.The Maximum numbers
of ASSET Talent Scholars are from The Doon School. However, overall around 96 students
participated from the city in ASSET Talent Search.
This talent search programis an extension of EI’s patent assessment test ‘ASSET’, practised by
more than 3.5 lac students all over India, UAE, Kuwait and Singapore every year, since 2001.
ASSET is the scientifically designed diagnostic test, which helps to identify strengths and
weaknesses of individual students in subjects such as English, Maths and Science. It evaluates
students’ conceptual understanding rather than promoting rote learning. Around 3,200
students participated in ‘Duke TIP ASSET Talent Search Programme’this year,out of 3 lakhs
students who took ASSET test and proved their scholastic talents in Mathematics, Science and
English subjects.
This year’s test was challenging and offeredan insight into a child’s learning abilities which
helped parents and teachers in planning their child’s future for high school and beyond.
Speaking about the achievers in Dehradun, Mr. Sridhar Rajagopalan, Managing Director,
Educational Initiatives Pvt Ltd., said, “This year, we have received an encouraging response
from Dehradun. I congratulate all the toppers for their active participation and appreciate their
hard work to reach at this stage. Though the winners of this annual scholastic test, also known
as ASSET Talent Scholars, have been acknowledged and appreciated, there is a need to
recognize them by the educational community at large.”
One of the highlights of this program is that the subject wise top 10 percentile scorers are given
an opportunity to attend the prestigious Summer Studies Program organised in USA and India.
Summer Studies Program serves as an opportunity of a lifetime for these students. This unique
program is tastefully designed by experts to widen the learning horizons of students in many
exceptional subjects like Cryptography, Neuroscience, DNA, Creative Writing, and
Entrepreneurial Leadership. The teaching is provided by renowned faculty from USA.
ABOUT EI:
Educational Initiatives Pvt. Ltd. (EI in short), is an educational research & assessment
organization. Founded by a group of IIT and IIM-A alumni, EI aims to work towards improving
quality of education in our schools. It is recognised as South Asia’s leading assessment expert.
Two international sources — the Spanish Bankinter Foundation for Innovation and the American
newspaper Huffington Post independently listed EI among the top 25 educational innovators in
the world. It is India’s largest and arguably the only organization outside the Government
focused exclusively on improving and measuring student learning outcomes in school
education.