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06/03/24 10:49 AM IST

NCERT new report card

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  • The traditional report cards students receive in schools are set to undergo a major change, with the National Council for Educational and Research Training (NCERT) introducing a new ‘holistic progress card’ (HPC).
Holistic progress card
  • The Holistic Progress Card, or HPC, will no longer depend on marks or grades to evaluate a student’s academic performance. Instead, it will rely on a 360-degree evaluation.
  • Under the HPC model, the students will be regularly assessed through class activities where they are not just passive learners but active agents.
  • The activities will prompt students to apply diverse skills and competencies that will demonstrate whether they have been able to grasp concepts.
  • The difficulty level they experience while performing a task will also be assessed.
  • Teachers, thus, will be able to register the strengths of a student, such as their ability to “collaborate”, “follow instructions”, show “creativity” or “empathy”, etc.
  • Similarly, weaknesses like “lack of attention”, “peer pressure”, “lack of preparation” will help teachers identify areas where students need help.
  • A key feature of the HPC is that students will have a say too, evaluating their own as well as their classmates’ performance.
  • For instance, at the foundational stage, a student will circle appropriate responses like ‘Yes’, ‘No’ or ‘Do not know’, to descriptive statements like “I liked doing this work” or “I found this work easy”.
  • Similarly, a student will assess her peers by answering whether “my friend liked doing this work” or “my friend found this work easy”.
  • The HPC will also link home and school by making parents an integral part of a child’s learning process.
  • Parents’ inputs on their child’s ability to do homework and whether a child is able to follow lessons in the classroom will be included.
  • Even the child’s ability to balance screen time with extra curricular activities at home are now part of the progress report card.
Why this progress card?
  • According to the NEP 2020, the HPC is a means to build on self-awareness and self-esteem of students by communicating their strengths and areas of improvement.
  • Instead of testing rote memorisation skills, the HPC focuses on evaluating higher-order skills, such as analysis, critical thinking, and conceptual clarity of students.
  • Based on NEP’s recommendation, the National Curriculum Framework for School Education was rolled out in 2023.
  • The NCF SE states that the assessment of a student’s progress should be analysed through systematic collection of evidence.
  • NCF also suggests peer and self-assessment to help students monitor their own learning.
  • For a deeper understanding of a student’s “core competencies”, the NCF SE suggests classroom assessment through activities like projects, debates, presentations, experiments, investigations, role plays, etc. The HPC has been designed in line with this.
Benefits
  • The HPC goes beyond numerical grades, focusing on descriptive and analytical evaluations that encompass academic achievements as well as the development of critical skills in a child.
  • It promotes a shift from summative to formative assessment, fostering competency-based evaluation and holistic growth.
  • Additionally, it seeks to provide teachers and parents with insights to support each student in learning.
Source- Indian Express

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