SBA will put an end to the monopoly of the examination system on the education system: Prof Indrani
Farooq Shah
SRINAGAR: Five- day online training workshop on School Based Assessment (SBA) for teachers and teacher educators, which was organized by the State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT), J&K, concluded here today.
The purpose of the
workshop was to make the teachers understand the concept of school based
assessment as enshrined in the National Education Policy (NEP) announced by the
Ministry of Education, Government of India, in 2020. The policy, whose
implanting agency is the National Council of Education Research and Training
(NCERT), is referred to as NEP-2020.
The workshop
e-inaugurated by the Principal Secretary to the Government, School Education
Department, B K Singh, was attended by more than 100 teachers from all the
districts of the J&K UT. Director SCERT, Prof Veena Pandita, welcomed the
participants.
Speaking at the
occasion, Prof Pandita said that the traditional form of examination suffered
from a variety of flaws that put a student to a lot of pressure.
“The SBA encompasses a set of tool and
techniques to assess a child’s performance while moving beyond marks and
grades,” she said. “The assessment would be used to benchmark students’
learning against criteria—process skills/learning indicators and learning
outcomes— based on identified curricular aims and objectives.”
Prof Pandita said
because different children exhibit different skill sets, the SBA has been so
thought out that it provides a comprehensive information regarding the extent
of student learning vis-à-vis curricular objectives including performance in
different subject areas.
Prof. Indrani
Bhaduri, while underlining the importance of introducing the concept of SBA,
said that the National Achievement Survey (NAS) conducted in 2017 highlighted
some grave issues in our education system that needed to be mitigated. NEP 2020
has also made recommendations which need to be understood and implemented.
“Too much of emphasis on Rote learning
sacrifices comprehension, so by itself it is an ineffective in mastering any
complex subject at an advanced level,” Prof Bhaduri said. “While it prepares a
child quickly for exams using a cramming technique, it fails to instil a
competency-based learning.”
She said the SBA
is aimed at facilitating the attainment of competencies of the students in
order to assess the efficiency of the teaching-learning process within the
broader educational philosophy of assessment for learning.
“It invariably puts an end to the monopoly of
the examination system on the education system and to think about a better
practice that will make the student more interactive and expressive,” she
remarked.
She emphasized the
need to extensively train the teachers to reap the benefits of the SBA fully.
And on site
support and supervision is the corner stone.
“Because the teacher is at the heart of the
teaching-learning process, it’s important that they undergo a rigorous training
to fully understand the concept and then implement it on the ground,” Prof
Indrani said.
The first of its kind workshop on SBA was organised by the Educational Research and Assessment Survey (ERSA) Division of the SCERT.
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