Naina Mishra
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 22
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) today decided to introduce two international student assessment-type questions in Class X exams for mathematics, English and science from 2020.
An orientation to acquaint teachers with Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) was held here today, wherein Anita Karwal, CBSE Chairperson, was present. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) questions are competency-based and measure the extent to which students have acquired the ability essential for participation in modern societies.
The UT also proposed to reschedule the routine timetable of schools by incorporating the PISA syllabus so as to reach out to the students. “We are in the process of developing PISA-standard material which will be added to the curriculum and then, the timetable will be adjusted suitably,” said UT Education Secretary BL Sharma.
School principals have been told to prepare an annual pedagogical plan by June as the board analyse the plans.
The CBSE also reviewed the three-year statistical analysis of board results of government schools, private schools, Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidhlayas of the UT as compared to the national average during the orientation. According to the analysis, the performance of government schools was below the private schools, while Navodaya schools were performed better than the private schools.
Sharma said PISA test was the real challenge as nearly one-third of the student population in government schools are from slums and rehabilitation colonies. He announced that mathematics would be the main domain for PISA-2021.
Karwal, while reviewing the graphs of general performance index of board results over the years, said there was a need to integrate new quality of education. She said PISA was not an institution which would stay forever, but an instrument to enhance teaching-learning process. She said nobody was testing anyone and PISA was just to enhance the level of learning.
The UT plans to extract material from the US and Singapore for developing PISA-based curriculum. As far as UT’s preparations are concerned, three committees of subject experts have been formed for mathematics, language literacy and science.
What is PISA
On the cards
‘Khan Academy’ to partner with the city
Sources said, US-based ‘Khan Academy’, which is a non-profit organisation, has offered the UT help in preparing the exam material for free. Experts from the academy told the teachers about learning through open sources. Teachers and students can download Khan Academy application for gaining access to their teaching methodology.
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