Re: [MTC Global] What's behind the great Indian marks race

@ to #1 Dr. P.H.Waghodekarji: Honorable sir, you are right. But in case there is no "Great Indian marks race", the so called tuition houses employing "not fit for teaching" will be rendered unemployed. And unemployment figure will go up. 

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2017-06-11 15:49 GMT+05:30 Usha Gowri <usha.gowri@gmail.com>:
I am waiting-now the cut off is 99 or 99.6 or whatever..what next? five years from now 100 percent? And then?


 
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On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Prof. Bholanath Dutta <bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:
In the annual drama of the Class XII results, there are stories of celebration, heartbreak and injustice. The variation in results between various school education boards hurts students. Data over the last five years makes it clear that some boards have been competitively generous, in terms of the pass percentage as well as the proportion of high scorers (90%-and-above in aggregate). Other boards have swung in the opposite direction.

In the last five years, the pass percentage for Class XII exams conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate (ISC) has never dropped below 95%, while that of Tamil Nadu State Board has been above 90% since 2014. Other boards that consistently notch 80% and above in pass percentage are the Uttar Pradesh Board, Kerala Board and Central Board of Secondary Education, with West Bengal joining the league in 2015. Andhra, Telangana, Odisha, Punjab, Haryana and Bihar are on the other end of the spectrum.

And it's not just that more students are passing, they're scoring more too. In every year since 2013, over 10% of students have been scoring 90% and above in ISC. There has been a quantum leap in the number of high scorers for boards like CBSE, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well. These four boards alone have 1,01,822 students this year who scored 90% and above in Class XII exams.

The mandate of the school education boards primarily is to set question papers and conduct fair examinations. Over the years, overzealous boards have decided to give an edge to their students, whether for entrance examinations or for merit-based admissions.

Ashok Kumar Pandey, principal, Ahlcon International, Mayur Vihar and winner of National Teachers' Award 2014, says the data only confirms that students appearing for board examinations across the country have had to suffer the vagaries of examination and evaluation system. "The differences in curriculum, question paper setting and quality of evaluation have a huge bearing on the overall performance of these children," points out Pandey.

The variations in question papers and evaluations and, therefore, in the final results, come from the way the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) itself is understood, says Pandey. "What level of understanding and application of that topic is to be presented differs from board to board. And this is where variations at all levels crop up," he explains.

A common curriculum and a stronger Council of Boards of School Education in India (COBSE) could be a way forward, according to some experts. COBSE did work on a common core curriculum for mathematics and science in 2011-12, which was supposed to have been implemented by all boards but wasn't. The plan is now being revisited by the HRD ministry.

Most blame the marks chaos on the inflated merit-based cutoffs to make it to colleges and universities.

The purpose of board examination is very different from that of a competitive examination, point out experts. The board exam is used to assess how good a student is at the curriculum prescribed for the relevant classes; it is an achievement test. On the contrary, competitive examinations are a test for the elimination of weaker students. It has been seen in the past that many students who have done well in the board examinations may not do well in competitive examinations and vice versa. Therefore, using board exams alone as a means for admitting students to Delhi University or other colleges may not be ideal, since the exam is not designed for that objective.

Also, using the board examination marks to select students across various boards is discriminatory, since the marks obtained by the students depend on the syllabus, the method of teaching, scheme of examination, typology of question paper and the moderation policy followed by the board. Moderation is meant to be used to smooth any discrepancy in the result that might occur because of wrong questions, varying levels of difficulty between questions papers, and other vagaries in the examination. Under the pretext of moderation, school education boards started spiking marks, some doling out as high as 16 marks per paper.

Claiming that Delhi University was one of those responsible for the "competitive spiking of marks", former CBSE chairperson BP Khandelwal says: "Now it's because of DU. However, it all started with BITS Pilani admissions when even the UP Board topper never used to get admission."


He stresses that exam evaluation and its moderation process should not be guided by the university admission process. Since the situation is different in every state, COBSE should come in strongly to build a fair system. "Quality education is one of the biggest challenges and if we don't attend to it now, we will have to deal with the damage done in 2030," he adds.

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Meanwhile, the deluge of 90-plus scores makes it difficult to judge students, and hurts the truly deserving. Grade inflation, like regular inflation, is when the same marks - say 90 - are worth less because more people are given that, explains data analyst Debarghya Das. Unlike regular inflation, it is problematic because the maximum marks you can achieve is capped at 100. He explains this with a potato eating contest analogy.


"In regular inflation, perhaps participants will be able to eat more potatoes over time because the size of the average potato gets smaller. This is okay, because the best potatoeater will still eat more. In grade inflation, I have the same potato-eating contest but the maximum number of potatoes per participant is 20. Now, as the potatoes become smaller, most of my participants eat all 20 potatoes, just like most students get 90+ marks. Therefore, as a judge, it's impossible to tell who's a true potato eating champion and who is not!"

​Source: Times of India​

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