Teachers aghast as less than a week given to evaluate 1.66 crore answer sheets of classes 5, 8 and 9 board exams in Karnataka
The Hindu
KSEAB issued an order to complete the evaluation of answer sheets of class 5 students by March 31, and the rest by April 2. KSEAB has decided to announce the board exam results of classes 5, 8 and 9 by April 10,
Teachers are up in arms against an order issued by the Karnataka State Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB), which has allotted less than a week for the evaluation of around 1.66 crore answer sheets of classes 5, 8 and 9 board examination (Summative Assessment-2).
After a division bench of the High Court of Karnataka gave the green signal, the KSEAB resumed the stalled board exams for classes 5, 8 and 9 on March 25. The examinations for class 5 has been completed on March 26, and the examinations for class 8 and 9 will end on March 28.
KSEAB issued an order to complete the evaluation of answer sheets of class 5 students by March 31, and the rest by April 2. KSEAB has decided to announce the board exam results of classes 5, 8 and 9 by April 10,
The major reason for the opposition to this order is that KSEAB has suggested that a teacher evaluate an average of 40 to 80 answer sheets every day.
“Evaluation of class 10 exam answer sheets is conducted for at least 20 days. Also, KSEAB allows a teacher to evaluate an average of 15 to 20 answer papers in a day. Hence, why a different yardstick for evaluation of answer papers of classes 5, 8 and 9?” said a teacher.
It has been decided to conduct inter-cluster-wise evaluation of answer sheets at the taluk centre. Later, the written exam and internal assessment scores of the students will be aggregated and converted into grades, and entered in the Student Achievement Tracking System (SATS) portal. Then, the results will be declared by the respective school principals on April 10.
While each evaluator of class 5 has been instructed to evaluate 80 answer sheets per day, each evaluator of class 8 has been told to evaluate 60 answer sheets each day, and each evaluator of class 9 has been given a target of 40 answer sheets per day.
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