In a major shift from the conventional system of assessment, NCERT has recommended an increase in the marks allotted to internal assessment by up to 50%.
NEW DELHI: In a major shift from the conventional system of assessment, NCERT has recommended an increase in the marks allotted to internal assessment by up to 50 per cent.
As part of reforms in the examination system, the Department of Education Measurement and Evaluation of NCERT has suggested various educational boards across the country, including CBSE, to give more weightage to school-based assessment which would be conducted through oral testing, projects and practicals
"Written test should not be the only method of assessing the knowledge of a student. The internal assessment, to be conducted by the schools, will make the test broad-based and can judge the students properly," Prof Avtar Singh, head of the department, told.
NCERT has also suggested revamping the question patterns in the written test with more emphasis on short answer type and Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ).
NCERT has already taken up the matter with different boards like CBSE, Assam Secondary Board, Himachal Pradesh Board and Jammu and Kashmir Board in this regard.
As per the recommendations, the teachers in schools will conduct oral testing by asking questions to students and initiating discussions among them. The oral skills of students will carry certain marks.
Besides, the students will prepare projects in different topics which can judge their understanding of the concepts. More emphasis will be on practical exam which will further establish the students' understanding, he said.
"Some boards like CBSE has already introduced internal assessment in different subjects. But this component will be increased up to 50 per cent over a period of time," Singh said.
The reason behind NCERT's suggestion for increasing the MCQs is that such types of questions have the advantage of testing higher mental skills of students and covering more course content, he said.
NCERT has also prepared a model question paper on different subjects and has submitted a set of question paper to CBSE which has adopted the new textbooks of NCERT and the new pedagogy of teaching prescribed by the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), 2005.
"After a series of discussions withe CBSE, we have prepared the model papers which we have submitted to them. Now they are considering to have similar pattern of question papers in the coming board exam next year," Singh remarked.
The NCERT has also suggested creating a pool of questions on different subjects. "The intention is that if their is a question bank, it will help to prepare a good question paper," he said.
Besides, the NCERT has recommended that such type of questions, which have fixed answers, should be avoided in question papers.
"For example there should not be any question asking the definition of certain concepts. These questions will warrant the students memorise the answers than analysing the concepts," he said.
Rather situations should provided and students should be asked to relate different theories to the situations and analyse, he said.
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