DEBATE ON EFFICACY OF CCE HEATING UP

CBSE IS TAKING STOCK ON THE EFFICACY OF THE NEWLY INTRODUCED CCE.

There has been wide complaint among teachers of higher secondary section that the standard of students reaching class XI has declined after the introduction of CCE. Students who do not have real aptitude and interest get admission to science stream because of their high grades which they do not really deserve. The system of education upto class X and that of class XI are widely different. The students find it extremely difficult to cope up with the level and standard of class XI science.

Many feel frustrated when they find out that they have reached the wrong place. They wonder what to do next. Many of them even get ready to lose one year for the right stream for which they are really fit.

Now CBSE has also started receiving the feedback from various sources and they are now taking data and analyzing what has gone wrong.

Do you find CCE wrong?

Is it necessary to replace it with the old system?

OR can it be modified and implemented effectively without harming the future of students?

What is your response on CCE? Post them as comments to this post and let the higher authorities read it.

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75% Students Applied For IIT JEE 2012 Online In The Bombay Zone

For the first time since IIT JEE has gone outline, 75% of the 75,000 applicants in the Bombay zone have applied online. The Bombay zone includes Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, parts of Rajasthan and Belgaum in Karnataka. This year, IIT Delhi is organizing IIT JEE which will be held on April 12, 2012.

CCE is more burden than earlier evaluation system

The newly introduced Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) by CBSE is more burburden for teachers as well as students. Instead of decreasing the load, it has increased it. The teachers are under more tension than the students, as they have to maintain more records and every time on full alert, monitoring, mentoring and all. Most of the evaluation taking place in most of the schools are unplanned or in some cases they do not take place at all.

The evidences of evaluation are often  ”cooked” as and when required during school inspection or cross checking by CBSE. CBSE has highly formalised the formative evaluation and it is in practice defeating the purpose. The already overburdened teachers are further burdened by these. When it comes to supervision, the teachers are compelled to tell lies or produce false evidences and forged documents.

Why this injustice? What was wrong with the earlier system? NCF quotes that the earlier system was too much bookish and lacked a comprehensive approach.

OK

But, why to overhaul the already existing system which has produced so many successful personalities some of whom have formulated the new system too.

Further, the teachers handling current class 11 are complaining that the stuff is extremely difficult to handle. The stuff means the students who passes with high grades in current system of evaluation in class X. They don’t care what the teacher says, whether it be revising regularly, maintaining records or completing an assigned task in time.

As the students have not undergone a system of regular serious study under the shadow of CCE, the lack the fundamentals and still expect that it will be an easy cake walk and that they can score high marks without studying anything.

It is clear that the current CCE and its implementation has to be revised. Let the academic side be given prime importance and let the assignments and projects continue to be a part of the evaluation and be counted for promotion as was the case in Kendriya Vidyalayas.

The term Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation and the rigidity imposed by CBSE in the time frame and assessment plans and all defeats the purpose in most of the cases.

Opinions and further suggestions are invited from all.

CCE looks fantastic when looked from out side or in theory, but in practice, it flopped.

What do you think? Post your reactions and reflections as comments to this post.

CTET–How to prepare?

Centre Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) is ahead and it’s a common question asked by many – How to prepare for it?

Here are some suggestions to score well in CTET

• Revise your notes on Education, Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, Educational Sociology, History of education, Philosophy of Education
• Read newspaper regularly with focus on educational issues.
• Be thorough the NCF (National curriculum framework) and read all the policy papers.
• Visit NCERT website & education.nic.in and many of the policy papers are available for download.
• Refresh your general knowledge, elementary mathematics and popular science.
• Read the science textbooks of 8,9 and 10 and in case if you have any doubts on these please ask at www.askphysics.com

Have confidence, prepare well and perform well, success will be yours

Awareness Programme on ‘IPR for Inventions and Creations’

Awareness Programme on ‘IPR for Inventions and Creations’

Jointly Organized by PIC-Kerala/ KSCSTE & KendriyaVidyalaya, Pattom, Trivandrum

on 19th November, 2011

Venue: Resource Room KendriyaVidyalaya, Pattom

Programme Schedule 19-11-2011

Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair

Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair heads the State Inter University Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, University of Kerala.  He had his BTech (Electrical Engineering) from College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram and MTech (Electrical Engineering) from IIT Bombay. He also holds an M.Phil in Computer Speech and Language Processing from the Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK and PhD from University of Kerala.

Since 1987, he has taught in various Engineering Colleges, Universities and Institutes both within India and abroad. During 2001 – 2004 he served as Director of Centre for Development of Imaging Technology, C-DIT, an autonomous techno-creative centre of Govt. of Kerala. In 2006 he was a Visiting Professor in University of Korea, Seoul.

He has authored 10 popular-science books on IT in Malayalam, including one on the internet in 1996 and one on Free software in 2002. His current research interests include use of digital signal processing (DSP) in bio-sequence analysis. He has a modest number of research publications in International & Indian Journals. One of his contributions on electro-mechanical model for the Transistor is cited in the classic text book: Hughes’s Electrical Technology (7th Edition) published by Orient Longman, UK.

He has widely traveled and given talks in hundreds of venues including Universities, a very large number of colleges in Keralam, University of Madras, Indore University, Bharathi Dasan University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, National University of Juridical Sciences, Culcutta and the Madras Music Academy.

He is recipient of Young Scientist Award of Govt. of Kerala (1991), Cambridge Barclay Scholarship (1991), ISTE National Award for Young Engineering Teachers (1994). He is a member of Computer Society of India, IEEE, Indian Society for Technical Education, and International Society for Computational Biology. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of State Higher Education Council of Govt. of Kerala

V.P. BALAGANGADHARAN

Shri. V.P. Balagangadharan is the Brahmaprakash Scientist in VSSC. He is the link between the centre and ANTRIX Corporation, Bangalore.

In his capacity, Shri. V P Balagangadharan is responsible for all intellectual property related matters of the centre. He has facilitated more than 60 patents and about a dozen copyright and a few designs.

ShriBalagangadharan has undergone many training programmes in IPR, has taken the DL-01 course on IPR by World Intellectual Property Organisation, has given many invited lectures (nearly 50) on IPR and conducted classes for many IPR awareness programmes. He has also conducted Induction programs on IPR to students. He has facilitated filing of 40 patents and 20 technology transfers to industry. He is also a member of the ISRO level standing Committee on IPR.

He was born in 1950 in Payyanur. Postgraduated in Chemistry and Joined VSSC in 1972. He possess 27 years of expertise in analytical chemistry at VSSC. He is an Expert in material characterization and published 30 papers in international journals and seminars.

Apart from his professional expertise, he is well known for his science communication through articles, lectures, radio and TV. He is a member, fellow and office bearer of many professional bodies.

He has been closely associated with KSCSTE. He is a member of IPR Advisory Committee, member of State Level IPR Standing Committee and chairs similar IPR related Committee.

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Fake Business schools mushrooming in Delhi: AICTE

Fake business schools are mushrooming in Delhi which has been confirmed by AICTE. The capital has received a distinction in playing host to the largest number of illegal educational institutes in the country. AICTE has proved that as many as 75 institutes in Delhi are enrolling students under technical programmes without its approval.

AICTE and UGC keeping an eagle eye on Fake Educational Institutions

Stringent policies have been made by Government for fake educational institutions. AICTE and UGC are keeping an eagle eye on Fake Educational Institutions and the other unapproved institutions. Recently, UGC has identified 21 fake universities/institutions and AICTE had found 348 fake institutions in various parts of the country.

New Fee structure for IITs

Council of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has decided to hike the IIT fees by 400 percent. It will come into action from 2013 and it is for students who are not from economically and socially backward classes. But students will have to pay the extra fees once they get employed. At present, for Bachelors of Technology (B.Tech) course, students pay Rs. 50,000 annually and IIT Council has presented an agreement to increase the fees to Rs2 lakh per annum from 2013.