Sir,
It is heartening to read that the Central University of Jammu organised workshops on ‘Difficulties in Evaluation’ and ‘Enhancing life skills and leadership among students'(DE, Dec22/23, 2016).There is no doubt that assessment and evaluation are the integral part of any Education System.These are invaluable tools to find out how much knowledge of a particular topic/subject the students have gained.Therefore,evaluation must be objective and reliable .But it is sad that evaluation is the most neglected area in the system of examination.The examiners and head examiners are rarely imparted training before the evaluation of the answer scripts of the students, especially those appearing for their Board and University exams.The result is that there is much subjectivity in evaluation.
This can be borne from the fact that sometimes there is much difference between the marks obtained by a student before and after reevaluation.In some cases, the result of the candidates changes.Similarly, the purpose of real education is to enhance the life skills of students and develop leadership qualities in them in order to enable them to face the harsh realities and challanges of the fast changing world in an efficient manner.Therefore, it is the Central and State Boards of School Education as also the Universities ought to organise such workshops for paper setters, head examiners, examiners etc. both at University and school level so that the examiners are properly aquainted with the objective techniques of evaluation and the answer scripts of the candidates are properly evaluated and students do not suffer.Similarly, workshops on honing the skills of the students, such as communcation skills, interpersonal skills, argumentative skills, critical skills, social skills and leadership skills should also be organised, especially at Secondery and Hr.Secondery level when the students are under intense pressure and when these skills can help them a lot in coping up with the pressures and challanges of life at this crucial stage.
Yours etc….
Ashok Sharma,
Udhampur.
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel