NEW DELHI: ‘Learning outcomes’ will become a part of the Right to Education Act before March next year towards assessing reading and learning abilities of students in the absence of detention policy, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today said.
Javadekar said the inclusion of this provision will help bring in more “accountability” among students and teachers. The parameters have already been defined, he said.
Speaking at the ‘Agenda Aajtak’ event here, Javadekar said the decision to do away with class 10 Board exams in CBSE schools was wrong. It was being reintroduced from the 2017-18 session, he said.
Javadekar said soon it will be left to the states whether or not to conduct exams in class 5 and 8, albeit with two conditions that no exams shall be conducted till class 4 and that students who fail be provided to take supplementary tests to avoid a year’s loss.
“Learning outcomes were to be defined as per the RTE Act but it was never done. We have defined it and have also shared it with the states. It will be finalised in a month and will become a part of the law before March,” Javadekar said. (AGENCIES)
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