CBSE's training programme for teachers launched

A training programme for teachers which compliments CBSE's efforts to implement Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) was launched today to bring awareness on the role of assessment. The trainings will be conducted among groups of 25 teachers and over 600 trainings covering close to 15,000 teachers across India. Teachers will be expected to use their knowledge of assessment theory in this exercise to develop a range of assessment tasks that will help them reliably capture the image of what students know and can do, said Jim Tognolini, a board member at the Centre for Assessment, Evaluation and Research (CAER). Central Board of Secondary Education has worked with the Pearson Foundation to establish CAER. The training programme comprise modules such as constructing quality multiple choice items and response items to assess the scholastic skills of the curriculum and module on classroom-based research. The country-wide programme is beginning from Delhi, Chandigarh and Indore.