An expert panel of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has recommended a redesign of the college level examination papers in the country. The panel has proposed to ensure that at least 10 per cent marks are awarded on the basis of questions that test the critical thinking of students, a daily news report said.
Questions that test critical thinking will initially be offered in select undergraduate programs, and will later be expanded to all graduate courses. The panel recommends that the weightage of such questions should be increased to 40 per cent in future, provided the rollout is successful.
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As part of the NAAC panel’s white paper on revising the evaluation and accreditation process of higher educational institutions in the country, the proposed re-design of exam papers is aimed at promoting “higher-order cognition” among students. The panel is headed by Bhushan Patwardhan, Chairman, NAAC Executive Committee, and KP Mohanan, a former professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research.
The paper states that the development of higher-order cognition among students is a major component of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, The panel of experts has defined high level literacy as the ability to process and communicate academic knowledge through oral and written forms of language. It also defines higher-order numeracy as the thinking that goes into understanding numerically coded information.
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Among other key recommendations of the panel is advice against provisional accreditation system for colleges (PACs). PAC announced by NAAC and University Grants Commission (UGC) Allows new institutions including institutions having one academic year or more to apply for provisional approval for a period of two years. As per the previous rules, a college has to be at least six years old to apply for accreditation.
The panel further recommends that NAAC should focus more on assessment of learning outcomes rather than relying on self-assessment of institutions during the grading process. The panel has also recommended introduction of grading for individual programs offered by the institutes in addition to the overall rating by NAAC.
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