Cbse To Conduct Trials Of Open-book Exams For Lessons 9-12; No Plans To Undertake Format In Boards: Outcomes.amarujala.com
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The Central Board of Secondary Training (CBSE) is planning a pilot run of Open-E book Exams (OBE) in chosen faculties for lessons 9 to 12 later this yr, in line with officers.
The concept was floated within the final governing physique assembly of the Board in December, 2023. Officers, nevertheless, mentioned there is no such thing as a plan to undertake the format at school 10 and 12 board exams.
“The CBSE is planning a pilot run of open-book assessments in chosen faculties, focusing on topics English, Arithmetic, and Science for Lessons 9 and 10, and English, Arithmetic, and Biology for Lessons 11 and 12. The intention is to gauge the time taken by college students to finish these checks and collect suggestions from stakeholders.
“The plan is according to suggestions made within the Nationwide Curriculum Framework. These checks would endure a pilot section in faculties to judge numerous facets corresponding to completion time, suitability for formative and summative evaluation, and stakeholders’ perceptions,” a senior board official mentioned.
In an open-book examination, college students are allowed to hold their notes, textbooks, or different research materials and check with them in the course of the examination.
The pilot might be centered on assessing higher-order pondering abilities, software, evaluation, essential and artistic pondering, and downside fixing skills. Whereas the design, growth, and assessment of Open E book Checks is proposed to be accomplished by June 2024, the pilot testing of the supplies in faculties is being deliberate in November-December 2024.
“The strategy may very well be utilized in inner exams to advertise revolutionary pondering amongst college students. Nonetheless, it’s only in an ideation section, and there’s no plan to undertake the OBE format within the CBSE class 10 and 12 board examination,” the official mentioned.
The CBSE had beforehand experimented with an Open Textual content-Primarily based Evaluation (OTBA) format for the year-end exams of Lessons 9 and 11 for 3 years from 2014-15 to 2016-17, nevertheless it was scrapped primarily based on adverse suggestions from stakeholders.
Drawing from this expertise, discussions inside the curriculum committee emphasised the significance of high-quality textbooks and recommended involving lecturers within the preliminary OBE trials to make sure requirements akin to superior placement exams.
Within the governing physique assembly, the board additionally contemplated on making the lecturers take the open-book exams first to know the “potential” of a number of solutions in OBE questions.
The CBSE chairman harassed upon the necessity to study from Delhi College’s experiences to calibrate CBSE’s OBE preparations successfully. Jyoti Sharma, a professor from Delhi College, who was current on the assembly drew parallels with the Superior Placement (AP) exams for US school entrance, lauding their query readability and high quality, advocating for the same excessive commonplace in OBE content material. She recommended CBSE ought to think about AP questions as benchmark for drafting high quality CBSE OBE content material.
