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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Scanner on school no-detention policy -Basant Kumar Mohanty

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published Published on Jul 30, 2013   modified Modified on Jul 30, 2013
-The Telegraph


New Delhi: Easy promotions may lead to poor performance in school, a government committee has found.

Class X board results have worsened across the states in the three years since the Right To Education Act stipulated compulsory promotions till Class VIII, a member of the panel told The Telegraph.

The act mandates schools to conduct "continuous and comprehensive evaluation" (CCE), which means pupils' scholastic and co-scholastic skills should be assessed round the year over and above their performance in six-monthly tests.

The committee's findings suggest that poor implementation of the CCE by untrained teachers, rather than the new system itself, could be behind the worsening board results.

Set up by the Central Advisory Board of Education under Haryana education minister Geeta Bhukkal, the committee's mandate was to study the implementation of the CCE. After talking to state boards, students, parents and experts across the country, the panel is preparing its report and is expected to hand it over soon.

The panel has found that the CCE is not being practised in most government schools in several states, including Bengal, because the teachers are not trained well enough to implement it.

Worse, many of these schools have stopped taking the traditional annual exam they used to hold in the pre-RTE days, using the introduction of the CCE as an excuse. As a result, students are being promoted without any evaluation or test.

That the CCE itself may not be to blame is corroborated by this year's Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class XII board results, where the pass rate has been the highest in five years.

"I think the CCE is much better implemented in CBSE schools. That explains the difference between the performances of state board and CBSE students," said Sangeeta Bhatia, principal of a CBSE school in Delhi.

The government panel is likely to make several recommendations, such as:

• Teachers at government schools should be trained in implementing the CCE;

• Students who perform well should be given incentives such as scholarships or commendation certificates;

• A minimum attendance rate of perhaps 60 or 70 per cent should be prescribed. The committee has found poor attendance levels in state government schools;

• Parents should be more accountable and be involved in the management of schools.

In May, a parliamentary panel had asked the government to rethink the automatic promotions policy, saying it might be affecting children's desire to learn. Pratham, an NGO, too has found that schoolchildren's learning outcomes have fallen since the RTE Act came into force on April 1, 2010.


The Telegraph, 30 July, 2013, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130730/jsp/nation/story_17173349.jsp#.UfeVUKzcjco


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