Changes incorporated in evaluation system

Ambika Sharma

Tribune News Service

Solan, November 26

The earlier system of evaluating Class IX answersheets of government schools at the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) has failed to yield the desired result.

As the process could not be completed on time, the Directorate of Elementary Education sought to go in for evaluation of answersheets at the complex-school level (cluster of complex schools).

The results of the Class IX examination, conducted in December last year, were declared in May as the system of evaluation had been entrusted to the DIETs.

The Directorate of Elementary Education had adopted the system last year to give students a feel of board examinations and enhance their preparedness for such exams.

The schools were following the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system as per which a student was evaluated for nine subjects every month by teachers who granted him/her up to five marks for each subject. The final result depended on 370 marks comprising the CCE score and the final written examination comprising 800 marks. The results had been delayed as the DIETs had failed to complete the evaluation work in December before the closure of schools for the winter break.

Since the system adopted last year had failed to serve the purpose, it has now been decided to evaluate the answersheets at the complex-school level. A complex comprises a senior secondary school, middle and high schools lying in its precincts.

“Since the annual examination of classes VI and VII had already begun on November 18, the answersheets were being evaluated at the complex schools. Each subject teacher was assigned to join the evaluation work for at least two days. “The classes VIII and IX examinations will begin from November 28 and the evaluation work will be completed soon,” said principal of a government senior secondary school.