After the announcement of the examination reforms, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) plans to set in motion the Teachers' Training Programme soon for all the CBSE affiliated schools across the country.
The move is aimed at ensuring the successful implementation of the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), a new system of assessment. CCE, a multiple mode of assessment would cover all aspects of the development of students including scholastic skills, life skills, attitudes, decision making as well as analytical abilities.
“After the announcement of the new examination reforms of CBSE, doubts have been raised on the preparedness of the teachers of CBSE schools to implement the new assessment system.
To ensure the successful implementation of the CCE system, CBSE would soon start a teachers' training programme”, said Vineet Joshi, chairman, CBSE. CBSE is holding discussions with the teachers of the CBSE affiliated schools in this connection, he added.
Joshi was speaking at the inaugural foundation lecture on Right to Education and CBSE Examination Reforms, organized here by the Sai International School.According to the recently announced examination reforms, the Class X board exams would become optional from 2011 in all the CBSE affiliated schools which have courses up to the senior secondary level.
The board examinations will be replaced by a nine-point grading system ranging from A1 to E2.
AK Rath, former secretary, school education of the Government of India and chairman (public policy) of Management Development Institute-Gurgaon stressed on the need to scale up spending on education.
“Forty years back, the Centre had decided to spend six per cent of the GDP on education but actually we are spending only 3.4 per cent of the GDP on education. We need to scale up our spending on education”, he said.
Rath pointed out that while the government has succeeded in enrolling students at the primary school level it has failed to arrest the school drop-out rate.
“We have miserably failed to retain students. Around 30 per cent of the students drop out by Class V and 50 per cent drop out by Class VIII. The high drop-out rate can be attributed to the absence of basic infrastructure facilities at the schools”, he added.
