Annual Report - National Council Of Educational Research And ...

Programmes of the CIET are processed through the Institute’s Advisory Board
(IAB). Similarly, the programmes of the PSSCIVE are processed through its
Institute’s Advisory Board (IAB).
Conducting and sponsoring educational research is one of the major activities
of NCERT. Research programmes proposed by the constituents of the NCERT
and other institutions/organisations are considered by the Educational Research
and Innovations Committee (ERIC). ERIC promotes and sponsors research in
various areas of school education and teacher education.
The programmes processed by various committees are finally considered by
the Programme Advisory Committee (PAC). The PAC reports to the Executive
Committee of the NCERT the overall directions in which research, training,
extension and other programmes would be channelised to best serve the interest
of school education in the country.
Major Achievements during 2010-11
� NCERT continued to conduct research in priority areas in school education
and teacher education. In addition to the researches being carried out by
NCERT it also supports educational research through Educational Research
and Innovations Committee (ERIC). Six research projects were completed with
the financial support of ERIC during 2010-11. As on 31 March 2010, 33
research projects funded by ERIC are being carried out. The NCERT has
started a new initiative by way of award of “NCERT Doctoral Fellowships.”
Ten fellowships are earmarked to be awarded every year to young aspirants
to pursue doctoral research in the field of education and other disciplines
directly related to education. In 2010 and 2011 nine scholarships each were
provided.
� The work on Seventh Survey of Research in Education to discuss the state of
the art of research conducted in India in different fields of education is in
progress. Research Methodology Course was organised for DIET/SCERT
faculty of Assa at SCERT, Guwahati from 9 to 15 November 2010. A
workshop was also organised for the DIET/SCERT personnel of Punjab at
NIE, New Delhi from 14 to 18 February 2011.
� Programme evaluation studies were conducted under SSA-TCF activities.
Four evaluation studies were conducted: Children’s Learning Acceleration
Programme for Sustainability (CLAPS) for Andhra Pradesh; Multi-Lingual
Education (MLE) Programme in the State of Orissa; Aadhar Initiative of
Himachal Pradesh and Activity Based Learning (ABL) in Tamil Nadu.
� A selection of children’s literature in Hindi, English and an annotated
bibliography for primary and upper primary stage was developed for
promoting skills of independent reading in children at the early years of
schooling.
� A series of four regional conferences (at Ranchi, Tirupati, Agartala and Ajmer)
were organised for sharing of successful monitoring experiences and
implementation of RTE Act, 2009.
� Fifth batch of the six months Diploma course in ECCE was started from
8 November 2010.
� A study was conducted to explore the benefits and shortcomings of home
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