{"id":203039,"date":"2022-09-01T18:40:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T13:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203039"},"modified":"2022-09-01T18:40:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T13:10:43","slug":"parekh-govt-proposes-a-new-regulator-for-uniformity-in-all-board-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/parekh-govt-proposes-a-new-regulator-for-uniformity-in-all-board-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"PAREKH: Govt proposes a new regulator for \u2018uniformity\u2019 in all board exams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:<\/b> The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cPAREKH: Govt proposes a new regulator for \u2018uniformity\u2019 in all board exams\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Indian Express <\/b>on 1st September 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

The Union government is planning to set up a national regulator PAREKH for achieving a benchmark framework to assess students at the secondary and higher secondary level.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is PAREKH?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Full-Form: <\/b>PAREKH stands for <\/span>Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development.<\/span><\/p>\n

It will act as a <\/span>constituent unit of the NCERT.<\/b><\/p>\n

Mandate<\/b>: It will be tasked with holding periodic learning outcome tests like the National Achievement Survey(NAS) and State Achievement Surveys.<\/span><\/p>\n

Objectives<\/b>: <\/span>To encourage and help school boards to shift their assessment patterns toward meeting the skill requirements of the 21st century.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 To bring uniformity across the state and central boards which currently follow different standards of evaluation, leading to wide disparities in scores.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 To put an end to the emphasis on rote learning, as envisaged by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

Composition:<\/b> Its team will consist of leading assessment experts with a deep understanding of the education system in India and internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n

Significance: <\/b>PAREKH will eventually become the national single-window source for all assessment-related information and expertise, with a mandate to support learning assessment in all forms, both nationally and where applicable, internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cPAREKH: Govt proposes a new regulator for \u2018uniformity\u2019 in all board exams\u201d published in Indian Express on 1st September 2022. What is the News? The Union government is planning to set up a national regulator PAREKH for achieving a benchmark framework to assess students at the secondary… Continue reading PAREKH: Govt proposes a new regulator for \u2018uniformity\u2019 in all board exams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-203039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}