Do children in the KPM model school do well on standardized examinations?
The KPM Approach to Children allows the child to develop fundamental qualities such as self-confidence, the ability to value others and get on well in social situations as well as the ability to apply learning. Standardized examinations generally do not measure these qualities. Memorization as well as other skills may be more important for standardized written tests. Notwithstanding this, however, KPM children in the model school, as mandated by Indian law, take standardized national examination tests in tenth standard (fourteen years of age) and twelfth standard (sixteen years of age) and generally perform well on them. They also have performed well on other external examinations, such as the U.S. Advanced Placement Tests and the U.S. National Merit Scholarship Examination. The fact that the children perform well on such tests may be due to their natural love of learning and the fact that they want to do well on them and represent their school well. The special help given by the teach
