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

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

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 […]

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Uniformity across all boards: Regulator for exam assessment

Uniformity across all boards: Regulator for exam assessment

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 […]

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Uniformity across all boards: Regulator for exam assessment

Govt proposes a new regulator for ‘uniformity’ in all board exams

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 […]

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