About NTA

Team NTA

NTA will have a team of education administrators, experts, researchers and assessment developers who believe that scientifically designed and properly delivered assessments can improve teaching learning processes in Indian class rooms. Students coming out of these processes will immensely contribute to the wellbeing of our country. These assessments will also improve equity and will ensure that merit and not the means prevail in selections.

Success of all works of NTA shall be evaluated on the basis of their being able to achieve the above purpose.

NTA will emphasize on updating its practices by constant innovation in assessment. The organization will give major emphasis to research in evaluation and use that research to update its assessment practices.

Core team members
  • Test Item Writers
  • Researchers and Psychometricians
  • Education Specialists
a)Researchers and Psychometricians

NTA has six operational verticals pertaining to various examinations. Every vertical will employ about 6 researchers including internationally known experts of psychometrics and statistics.

The group of researchers will be responsible for the following-

  • Research and analysis of data to support the examinations they are entrusted with
  • Ideate for future assessment practices
  • Establish good assessment practices and influence policy at the national level

The group of psychometricians and statisticians will be responsible for the following-

  • Reliabilityof the test in different versions to be used
  • Validityof the test by showing that the test measures the knowledge or skills that it is intended to measure
  • Fairness of the test by ensuring that no group of students is either advantaged or disadvantaged due to medium of examination or content of the questions
  • Equating multiple tests that will be done during a year so that these tests become comparable

NTA will set professional standards for assessments in the country, research on education and professional development.

Since India is a hugely diverse country, NTA will effectively liaise with various state governments, universities, state education boards, UGC, AIU, NCTE, NCERT, CBSE, CISCE, NIOS etc. to understand student’s abilities and higher education institution’s requirements.

b) Test Item Writers

NTA will create a pool of highly professional subject matter experts who will be trained by the psychometricians and statisticians. These subject matter experts will write items for NTA and using software/ artificial intelligence, the NTA will create tests.
Initially, the tests of NTA will come under the following categories:

Entrance Examinations
  • JEE (Main)
  • NEET – UG
  • CMAT
  • GPAT
Assessments for fellowship
  • UGC - NET
Targeted Assessments

In future, NTA will also undertake other tests to measure specific population’s content, knowledge and skills.

Education Policy Specialists

NTA will have a huge repository of data of student performance, with various other demographic parameters across subject areas. NTA will analyse this data to inform the policymakers about the corrective measures required for improving teaching and learning.
NTA will, inter alia, report on-

  • in-depth analysis of educational achievement across States and achievement gap
  • teacher quality and certification
  • Time series comparison of performance across states
  • Inputs on student and teacher training needs
  • educational reform