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Latest News |
| 30th
Sep 2010 / Times of India / Pune Edition |
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ICSE schools warm up to grade system
Pune: After the CBSE and state board schools,several ICSE
schools in the city are also following their pattern of
doing away with marks and percentages for evaluation and
adopting grading system.
The move, schools say, will reduce the severe competition
among students and take the pressure off them to fight
for half or one-fourth marks.
While some of the prominent ICSE schools in the city, such
as The Bishops School, Vidya Valley and Pawar Public School, have
introduced the grading system in junior level classes, others
have plans to follow suit.
According to Frank Freese, chief executive officer and
honorary secretary of the Bishops Education Society, The
Bishops School follows the grading system up to class
IV. I believe thats the best way to assess students, instead
of numbers that put pressure on them. We have been following
this system for the last three years and have plans to
introduce it in higher classes once it is approved by
the ICSE council.
Nalini Sengupta of Vidya Valley said, The Board has worked
out grades depending on the range of marks. We are more
or less following the system at junior level (up to std
III), since it was introduced about two years ago and we
intend to introduce it in higher level later.
Sengupta said, Grades are good. However, parents need to
be educated about their plus points. Once students are
graded A, B, B+ according to their performances, they will
not have to fight for marks.
The Pawar Public School has been following this method
of evaluation for the last three years. Anjali Gurjar, school
principal, said, We follow grading in junior level (std
IV) classes and we intend to take it up to std VIII. Although
we give grades in the final report card, marks are individually
shown if parents or students are particularly interested. But, I
think this is the future of evaluation and everyone will
have to adopt it, sooner or later.
From this year, the CBSE schools have introduced a system
of comprehensive continuous evaluation (CCE), for classes
VI to VIII, which grades students rather than evaluating
them with marks or percentages. In fact, the state government
had issued a resolution last month, to overhaul the evaluation
system wherein students would be given grades and not
percentages in their final report cards.
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