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and making it a part of instructional strategy to get the feedback frequently
on student performance, teacher performance, curriculum and materials with
a purpose of providing corrective measures. Comprehensive would mean that
the evaluation would encompass all the dimensions of pupil growth i.e.
cognitive, affective and psychomotor;
� improving the typology of questions in testing in order to test meta-cognitive
skills and to make evaluation more reliable, valid and purposeful;
� conduct of periodic achievement surveys at different stages of school
education to keep a tab on the health of the system;
� building capacity of teachers and state resource persons in different aspects
of educational evaluation;
� undertaking need-based research in educational evaluation;
� developing conceptual and exemplar material in evaluation to strengthen
evaluation procedures in schools and education boards;
� sensitising stakeholders that evaluation has to be learner friendly and
humane;
� identifying talent from diversified groups like rural, urban, boys, girls, socially
and economically disadvantaged, children with special needs with artistic
and innovative excellence; and
� nurturing the identified talent through financial and academic assistance.
Major Activities
DEVELOPMENT
Development of Exemplar Material Testing Higher Order Thinking Skills
at the Secondary Stage
One of the major functions of the department is to bring about qualitative
improvement in the examinations. Boards of School Education are the bodies,
which are entrusted with the responsibility of conducting public examinations.
These boards have always been looking up to NCERT for academic support in
all matters pertaining to reforms in examinations. With the new National
Curriculum Framework – 2005 the perspective of examination reforms has
changed. One of the reforms, which need immediate attention, is preparation of
quality questions testing higher mental abilities. In order to achieve these
objectives, the department planned to develop exemplar material in different
subjects for training and use of paper setters, teachers, teacher educators and
policy makers. The objective of the programme is to develop exemplar material
on preparing quality questions for testing in different school subjects like English,
Hindi, Mathematics, Science and Social Science. The clientele group includes
teachers, teacher educators and paper setters. The material has been developed
in workshop conducted from 26-30 July 2010. The material which has been
developed was vetted by teachers, teacher educators and paper setters in their
respective subjects from 25 to 27 October 2010. In this material lot of illustrations,
tables, graphs and pictures were incorporated for better quality of the questions.
The report writing of a programme is in the final stage.
Annual Report 2010-11