Exam evaluation system discussed

Our Correspondent

Kangra, January 12

The HP Takniki Shiksha Board yesterday organised a daylong programme on the “examination evaluation system” at the local Government Polytechnic.

Shubhkaran Singh, Director, Technical Education, Vocational and Industrial Training, said the evaluation process in the Board was an integral process of teaching and as such teachers should own it in right spirit. “They should mark students for what they attempt and should not penalise them for mistakes,” he said.

He said the Technical Education Department was planning to have a fresh blueprint of streamlining paper setting, paper evaluation and teaching techniques in the technical institutions in the state so that students got the best and fared better in the state and national-level competitions.

He said as had been the past practice, this year the syllabus of the first year in polytechnics would be reviewed and changed in student interest. He said irrelevant things carried forward in the syllabus would be dropped and latest things would be included.

The programme was attended by 140 faculty members of polytechnics from the state. The main focus of the workshop was to devise a mechanism how to standardise the awarding of marks.

Suneel Verma, secretary of HP Takniki Shiksha Board, said each evaluator should solve the question paper before evaluation and should prepare the expected answer and marks should be divided on the basis of number of steps and procedure of attempting question papers.