Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) in collaboration with Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development (PARAKH), NCERT, New Delhi, organised a 3 day workshop on "Capacity Building for Preparation of Cadre of Professional Paper Setters" for Mathematics and Science teachers at AIDA Training Centre, Don Bosco Campus, Dimapur, for the districts of Dimapur, Chümoukedima, Niuland, Peren and Mon districts from 13th-15th January 2025. Altogether 49 Mathematics teachers and 44 Science teachers participated.
The resource persons for the first two days were Abhishek Kariwal, Co-founder of Open Door Education and Kamal Gurnani, Open Door Education.
Open Door Education, headquartered in Bangalore, has been working with various schools across the country, conducting assessments and helping students to deep think by using innovative approaches to assessment.
The NEP 2020 emphasizes the importance of moving away from rote learning and fostering learning through conceptual understanding. A key step in achieving this shift is the inclusion of Competency-Based Questions (CBQs) in the curriculum. Unlike traditional questions, CBQs focus on assessing students' ability to apply their learning in new and unfamiliar contexts, treating each topic as a skill rather than just a set of information. The primary goal of these questions is to evaluate whether students can effectively use their knowledge and skills to solve real-world problems.
Resource persons for the third day were Priyanka Singh and Vivek Gupta from PARAKH, NCERT, New Delhi. They dwelled on "Question Paper Standardisation" on 15th January 2025. Some topics covered were The Equivalence of Boards Report results, Characteristics and Foundations of a Balanced Question Paper, Steps to develop a Balanced Question Paper, Preparation of Assessment Design and Question Paper Blueprint.
The same programme will be conducted for another group of teachers from the districts of Kohima, Tseminyu, Wokha, Mokokchung, and Phek at SIEMAT, SCERT, Kohima, from 16th to 18th January 2025, with the same resource persons.
(DIPR)
