The Central Board of Secondary Education has asked schools to send in the marks or grades that the school had given students during the second summative assessment so it can issue a uniform certificate for both students who take the board exam and those who take the school-based assessment. Students planning to migrate from CBSE to another board takes the board exam, while the others take the school exam, which has been considered easier.
CBSE controller of exams MC Sharma, in a letter addressed to principals of affiliated schools, said, "The board has decided to issue uniform certificates to all the Class 10 students appearing for the March 2011 examination irrespective of whether they are assessed by the board or by the school in summative assessment 2. To ensure the reliability, validity and fairness of assessment, the board is collecting marks or grades assigned at the school level through specially designed software."
In addition to collecting these marks or grades, the board will also do a random collection and verification of answer scripts of written tests or other evidence of assessments done at the school level as part of the formative and summative assessments. They will be checked by subject experts appointed by the board at the regional level.
The experts will submit their report on the evidence of assessments with regard to the respective award of marks. This report will be used to vouch for the fairness of the school-based assessments and to ensure the implementation of the continuous and comprehensive evaluation scheme in schools. The board will be undertaking this exercise with the objective of assessing the practices of school-based assessment.
Schools selected by the CBSE regional office should send the answer scripts for summative assessment 1, and formative assessments 3 and 4. Initially this information will be collected for five subjects - Hindi, English, mathematics, science and social science. Schools that are requested to send the EAs by the regional office should send it by March 20.
Senior principal of RMK Group of Schools C Satish said, "This is what schools wanted the CBSE to do. A certificate issued directly by the board to students taking the school-based assessment will add to the credibility of a students's aptitude and skill." (TOI)
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