The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has embarked on an initiative to equip all higher secondary teachers to prepare questions that not only test students’ knowledge and understanding but their creativity and ability to apply concepts practically as well.
Usually, only a certain group of teachers prepares the questions centrally. Now, the attempt is to involve all 28,000-odd higher secondary teachers and prepare a question pool, with particular focus on continuous and comprehensive evaluation, for next year. An initial cluster training for teachers was conducted by the SCERT, Directorate of General Education, and Samagra Shiksha, Kerala, recently as part of the curriculum reforms.
At the cluster meeting, teachers were familiarised with a set of such questions in each subject that were introduced at a State Resource Group meeting earlier. The teachers then prepared fresh questions on its basis. After online discussions in the presence of district resource group members, the questions will be fine-tuned, and at least one question will be contributed by a teacher. These will then be vetted by subject experts, and uploaded to an online portal. A deadline of December 22 has been set for this. The questions on the portal will be made available to students too.
