Planning to send your child to school but worried about how to judge its quality? Relax. There is a good news.
For the first time, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will start grading its affiliated schools on the basis of their academic and administrative functioning.
CBSE representatives from Delhi are training principals of city schools on how to prepare for the accreditation process. The first day of the training session was held at Pragya Girls School on Saturday.
“The representatives told us about all the steps which will be included in the accreditation process and preparations that we need to do for it,” said Indore Sahodaya Cluster member Shyam Agarwal.
The accreditation of schools will not involve ranking of institutions and will only ensure the school has met prescribed qualitative standards which have been pre-set by the accrediting agency, which is CBSE in this case.
Pragya Girls School principal Bhavana Pujari said, “The trainers shared three of the total seven main components of the accreditation process which including scholastic, co-scholastic and infrastructure”.
“There are overall 60 domains on which schools will be assessed by the board and accredited accordingly. Every school will have to complete its accreditation process within next three years,” she said.
The board will accredit schools on various parameters. In the first level, schools will have to do a self study of their standard. This will be followed by peer review in which a committee of peers from other schools and colleges will judge the standard of the school. A specialised agency will then follow up the practices and assessment of these levels.
Trainers said that the accreditation process will neither compare nor rank schools.
Parameters for quality assessment
Success with respect to student achievement in relation to the institution’s mission
Curricula
Faculty
Teaching, learning and transaction
Leadership & governance
Assessment and Evaluation Practices
Health & Safety l Innovation
Contribution to community
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