The National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) has notified India’s first national assessment regulator, PARAKH.
Key points
- PARAKH will work on setting norms, standards and guidelines for student assessment and evaluation for all recognised school boards in the country.
- With this new initiative, NCERT aims to set up assessment guidelines for all boards to help remove disparities in scores of students enrolled with different state boards.
- The “Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development (PARAKH)” as a centre has been established within the education survey division of the NCERT, with immediate effect.
- PARAKH has been launched as part of the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 that envisaged a standard-setting body to advise school boards regarding new assessment patterns and latest research, and promote collaborations between them.
- To begin with, the Educational Survey Division of NCERT, New Delhi, will function as PARAKH and from this, strategic expansion may take place in a phased manner.
- PARAKH will work on three major assessment areas: large- scale assessments, school-based assessment, and examination reforms.
- PARAKH will closely work with the state directorates of education, state education boards and international organisations working in the area of assessment and evaluation.
- PARAKH will also be responsible for conducting large-scale assessments, including the National Achievement Survey (NAS).
(Source: HT)
