CBSE conducts workshops to ensure error-free marking in 10th, 12th board exams 2019

NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 19 : Central Board of Secondary Education is conducting training sessions and workshops to train one lakh evaluators, principals and teachers, across the country ahead of 10th and 12th class board exams. According to the CBSE officials, nearly 50,000 people so far have been already trained in this regard.

CBSE Board, last year, received criticism for negligence related to errors in marking and evaluation and the board acted against nearly 150 teachers, belonging to the government as well as private schools. This year, with an aim to ensure correct marking and to minimize error, the Board has organized workshops to train evaluators. The officials are also training teachers, head examiners, assistant head examiners, principals, and chief nodal supervisors in pedagogy and academic leadership across the country.

At these workshops, a special video on pedagogy and academic leadership is shown. The workshops are being held across the following major cities - Jaipur, Indore, Mumbai, Allahabad, Ajmer, Bhopal, Lucknow, Agra, Chennai, Bengaluru, Agartala, Guwahati, and Bulandshahr. As per media reports, at one of the training sessions in Mumbai, around 1,400 teachers, and evaluators were trained.

As per the officials, a common answer sheet is provided to the evaluators who assign marks to answers. Subject experts then address these teachers based on their performance in this evaluation practice. Variations are then looked into, teachers are sensitized and the common mistakes are discussed to ensure error-free marking.

CBSE has also made an announcement that creative answers written by the candidates in board exam will be considered for evaluation.