CBSE planning internal assessment norms for Class 6-12 science subject

The CBSE will also develop a framework for benchmarking and reviewing standards, stated the minutes recently made public.

A team of CBSE officials will hold capacity-building workshops for school leaders and coordinators to ensure consistency, transparency, and fairness in internal assessment practices to mitigate issues such as “inequity in educational outcomes and disengagement among students”, it stated.

The internal assessment framework will be in line with the provisions of National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCFSE) and the Holistic Progress Cards developed as part of the government’s effort to realign school report cards with the NCFSE.

On CCTV recordings of classrooms where students are taking board exams, the minutes said that “anyone with vested interest can vitiate the exams”, adding that “real-time feedback from the ground gives necessary inputs to administer the exam in a proper way.”

The proposal involves directing schools to install CCTV cameras in classrooms, with the partial cost to be met by the CBSE. It also involves creating a data bank at the CBSE headquarters to which exam centres can submit CCTV recordings for each exam day via a web link.

The proposal is meant to be implemented from the 2025 exam onwards and a committee is set to be formed to assess the infrastructure requirement, implementation, “IT system efficacy”, and handling of data collected from schools.

The proposal says as a pilot project, at least 30% of the centres in a region may be on-boarded, and subsequently, this may be extended to all centres.