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NCERT proposal for ‘PARAKH’: Global bodies express interest in setting up school exam regulator

October 30, 2022October 30, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

THREE GLOBAL educational non-profits — Educational Testing Services (ETS), American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) —have expressed interest in helping to set up India’s first national school-level examination and assessment regulator, according to sources. While ETS is internationally recognised for conducting TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign […]

World Mental Health Day 2022: Five ways students can deal with exam-induced anxiety

October 8, 2022October 8, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

World Mental Health Day 2022: Exam anxiety is fairly common and can range from mild discomfort to debilitating anxiety affecting performance, mental health and wellbeing. Contrary to what most of us think, exam anxiety can be experienced by students of all ages. According to a recent NCERT national survey, 81 per cent of surveyed students […]

3rd graders in Gujarat better in English, Hindi than Gujarati: Survey

September 7, 2022September 7, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

The number of Class 3 students in the state who could listen and comprehend four to five texts of varying lengths correctly is the lowest in Gujarati—the mother tongue—and is even lower than English, Urdu, Marathi and Hindi. In addition, only a little more than half of Class 3 students sampled in a recent survey […]

Study: 11% of Class 3 kids lack basic maths skills, 37% have limited skills

September 6, 2022September 7, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

A NATIONWIDE study carried out by the Centre in March has found that 37 per cent of students enrolled in Class III have “limited” foundational numeracy skills, such as identifying numbers, while 11 per cent “lack the most basic knowledge and skills”. With a sample size of 86,000 students in 10,000 schools, the study — […]

Enrolment dip to go on, in keeping with fall in child population growth rate: NCERT study

September 1, 2022September 1, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

School enrolment in primary classes — grades I-V — started declining in India in 2011, a trend which is set to continue until 2025, according to a “projection and trends” report prepared by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). The Council has attributed this dip in enrolment to a fall in growth […]

Uniformity across all boards: Regulator for exam assessment

August 30, 2022August 31, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

THE UNION government plans to draw up a “benchmark framework” to assess students at the secondary and higher secondary level to bring about “uniformity” across state and central boards which currently follow different standards of evaluation, leading to wide disparities in scores. Over the last few months, the National Council of Educational Research and Training […]