National Council of Education Research and Training notified India's first National Assessment Regulator "PARAKH"

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Recently the National Council of Education Research and Training has notified India's first National Assessment Regulator "PARKH" with the aim of setting up assessment guidelines for all boards.

• What is PARAKH?

• PARAKH stands for Performance Appraisal, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development.

• It will act as a component of NCERT.

• It is also entrusted with the task of conducting periodic learning outcome tests like National Achievement Survey (NAS) and State Achievement Survey.

• This framework will also act to check the emphasis on rote learning as envisaged by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

• Its team comprises prominent evaluation experts with a deep understanding of the education system in India and internationally.

• Objective of PARAKH:

• Uniform Norms and Guidelines: To lay down norms, standards and guidelines for student assessment and assessment across all recognized school boards in India.

• Improvement in assessment pattern: It will act to encourage school boards to change their assessment pattern towards meeting the skill requirements of the 21st century.

• Reducing disparity in evaluation: This will bring uniformity across state and central boards that currently follow different standards of evaluation, leading to wide disparities in marks.

Benchmark Assessment: The benchmark assessment framework will address the issues contained in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.