Students must also be taught the essential skills for success in today’s world,
such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration.
Within the framework of core knowledge instruction, the institution(s) combine the
entire framework with the necessary support systems—standards, assessments,
curriculum and instruction, professional development and learning environments—
students are more engaged in the learning process and graduate better prepared to
thrive in today’s global economy.
Hence examination and evaluation become an integrated and important part
of education system even in the 21st century. The main emphasis is to assess
the knowledge gained by a student and motivate him/her to improve upon it.
Instilling confidence amongst students about the assessment system and timely
publication of highly accurate results is essential. This process aims at measuring
the degree of knowledge assimilated by the students during a course of study
without bringing excess pressure.
The process of examination aims at measuring the ‘degree’ of knowledge
incorporated by the students during a course of study or training imparted to them.
The students may pass examinations securing good marks with scanty preparation,
mostly done just before the examination and there is no reason to disagree.
Acquiring the best knowledge and not merely scoring good marks must be the
goal of the student. The objectives Examination process is to reflect the true
level of knowledge acquired by the students.
Examinations are conducted to test the level of the student, what he has
acquired during the course he was admitted into. It is also to see the students’
ability to understand and reproduce the knowledge acquired. Based on the
examination conducted, the exam system is able to stratify the students as per
their standard. So that high-quality students who have attained essential standards
of learning are screened out from the rest. Students thus screened can be then
trained for acquiring higher knowledge. Those remaining behind are given an
opportunity to improve and are re-examined.
Indian universities exams must be appropriate for the ‘knowledge society’ of
the 21st century. Therefore it has to encourage students to be innovative and
problem-solvers. The exam system today does not serve the needs of social
justice.
The reason according to some thinkers is quality of question papers is low,
they
usually call for rote memorization and fail to test higher-order skills like
reasoning
and analysis, let alone lateral thinking, creativity, and judgment, they are
inflexible, based on a ‘one-size-fits-all’ principle, they make no allowance for
different types of learners and learning environments.
Nowadays Exams induce an unwarranted level of anxiety and stress on the
students, which add to pervasive suffering, nervous breakdowns resulting
examinduced
suicides.
The following suggestions can be considered to improve the exam system:
1. University exams must encourage students to be innovative.
2. Higher-order skills like reasoning and analysis, lateral thinking, creativity,
and judgment, must be encouraged.
3. The quality of question papers must be improved.
4. Exams must not induce an unwarranted level of anxiety and stress on the
students.
5. Exams must not add to continual suffering, nervous breakdowns.
6. University/ colleges must open departments with psychological counsellors
to support students.
7. Universities must be transparent in disclosing grading and mark/grade
reporting.
8. College-based evaluation must be encouraged.
Evaluation plays a very important role in educational process. Evaluation is
used to determine the extent to which educational objectives have been
achieved
after the teaching learning process. The evaluation system maintains its
standards
along with the progress of education. Evaluation has been an integral part of
any
‘teaching and learning’ environment.
When an Evaluation in a college or university level is carried out one has to
consider the following questions because, the quality of any educational system is
directly linked with the quality of evaluation;
Who is the evaluation for?
Why are you carrying out the evaluation?
What will your evaluation do?
What kind of information do you want to collect?
What do you plan to do with the information once collected?
In fact, evaluation plays a crucial role in making a decision as to what the
learners
learn and what the teachers teach.
Evaluation is important because only through evaluation a teacher can judge
the growth and development of students, as well as the effectiveness of her/ his
own teaching in the class. “Teaching for successful learning cannot occur
without
high quality evaluation”
Thus, being continuous process evaluation serves a number of purposes in
education, some of the well known reasons are:
1. We come to know whether a student has developed a certain ‘ability’ stated
in the educational objectives or not.
2. We also know the progress of students during the course of teaching and
learning.
3. We are able to grade, rank, classify, compare and promote the students.
4. It is also used for certifying the completion of a course (by giving
certificates, diploma, or Degree)
5. Helps us in selection of students for Helps us in selection of students for
admission or scholarship, and
6. Helps in predicting their future success in different endeavours.
the basic purpose of evaluation has been to bring about quality improvement
in education which evaluation does by providing feedback regarding pupil
learning, classroom teaching, suitableness of curriculum and course contents
etc. Evaluation can also promote the accountability of the teachers. The
students’ results can tell whether the poor performance of the students is due
to poor teaching or defective methodology.
Thus evaluation can work as an important instrument for improvement in
teaching. Professional development of the teachers is almost directly related to
the
feedback through evaluation. A teacher earns a reputation on the basis of the
result
shown by the pupils whom he/she has taught. If the students do not show
desirable
learning outcomes, then he/she may have to think of changing his/her
strategies of
teaching, improving the instructional material, updating his/her knowledge or
going for a refresher course, thereby exploring new approaches. These steps
will
automatically help his/her professional development.
Examination: an exercise conducted to test the acquired understanding of
student and see if he has ability to reproduce the knowledge acquired.
Evaluation The evaluation is observation of the students. It has some
predetermined objectives to judge the progress, growth and development of
students.
