The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has directed states and Union territories to adopt the Holistic Progress Card (HPC) as part of the National Education Policy 2020, aiming for a comprehensive monitoring of students' progress. Officials familiar with the matter disclosed this information.
PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development), a national assessment center under NCERT, has crafted the progress card for three educational stages: foundational (classes 1 and 2), preparatory (classes 3 to 5), and middle (classes 6 to 8).
The HPC integrates feedback from peers, parents, and self-assessment by students to monitor their progress across various domains throughout the academic year. A pilot of the HPC was conducted by NCERT and the Central Board of Secondary Education in select schools last year.
Indrani Bhaduri, CEO of PARAKH, emphasized that the progress card provides a comprehensive assessment of children's achievements across different domains including physical, socio-emotional, literacy, and academic studies. She stated, "We are advocating its adoption in all schools," noting that numerous private schools have expressed interest in training their teachers through PARAKH.
The progress card will facilitate communication between home and school and will be supplemented by parent-teacher meetings to actively engage parents in their children’s holistic development.
PARAKH has already trained faculty from state councils of educational research and training, teachers from district institutes of education and training, and appointed 100 teachers from each state as master trainers. Bhaduri acknowledged the challenge of reaching all of India's approximately one crore (10 million) teachers and suggested that states should now train their teachers with the assistance of these master trainers.
Bhaduri also mentioned PARAKH’s efforts in digitizing the progress cards and developing frameworks for classes 9 to 12. She highlighted the translation efforts, noting that several states including Haryana, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, and Maharashtra are translating the HPC into regional languages, with Hindi and Marathi versions already in progress.
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