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: Tests & assessment
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Competency based learning and
testing.
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Progress cards.
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Oral & written tests, weightages,
needs.
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Marks not to be criteria but
attainment of competencies to be considered.
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Karnataka’s adoption of minimum levels
of learning as the medium of delivery at primary level was
initiated with DPEP. This has been universalized up to 4th
standard with well-defined competencies. From 5th
to 7th standard well-defined learning outcomes
are in place in each subject.
Progress cards were designed to assess the
achievements of children at the end of each competency. There
have been discussions at length regarding weightages for oral
and written tests. Competencies especially in language need
to be tested orally where the context demands. Much of it
is true for other subjects also. However a consensus had to
be reached on this in view of the large number of schools
involved. In fact at one stage we were looking at 50,000 evaluators!
Finally certain decisions were taken –
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Competencies which are ‘core’
to the learning situation to be short listed
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Oral testing to be limited to
2nd standard
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Tests to be refined
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Methodology for refining of
tools to be evolved and selected DIETs to undertake
trials and subsequent refinement.
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