About PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan 2024:
- The introduction of PARAKH aims to create a broader understanding of the educational landscape in India.
- A sample of school students from government, government-aided and private schools from each district in the country take the assessment, which is in the form of multiple-choice questions across different subjects.
- It will cover students from Grades 3, 6, and 9 across key subjects like Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, and “The World Around Us.”
- It will evaluate the overall effectiveness of schools across multiple districts. By using a combination of paper-based assessments and Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) technology, PARAKH introduces a more streamlined method of data collection and analysis.
- It collects performance data along with contextual data (school, teacher, and pupil questionnaires).
- It will evaluate entire schools as entities, providing a system-level assessment of education across districts. This change aligns more closely with international surveys such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
- Its approach is system-level, focusing on foundational, preparatory, and middle stages of education as outlined in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
- It provides report cards at the national level, the state level and the district level.
- It is managed by the National Assessment Center, PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development), which is located within the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and under supervision of the Ministry of Education (MoE).
Q1: What is the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)?
It is an autonomous organisation set up in 1961 by the Government of India to assist and advise the Central and State Governments on policies and programmes for qualitative improvement in school education.
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