{"id":134685,"date":"2015-04-15T00:40:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/04\/15\/nagaland-first-state-to-revise-ndp\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T00:40:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T00:40:18","slug":"nagaland-first-state-to-revise-ndp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/04\/15\/nagaland-first-state-to-revise-ndp\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagaland first state to revise NDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Nagaland became the first state in India to revise guidelines to the Non-Detention Policy (NDP) under the Right To Education (RTE) Act after the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) notified revised guidelines which came into immediate effect.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>This was disclosed by Director, SCERT Vipralhou Kesiezie at a press conference held Tuesday afternoon at SCERT conference hall.<\/div>\n<div>He said SCERT took cognisance of the negative skewed performances of the students during the last two years which undermined the quality of education after which the NDP was revised.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>A salient feature of the revised guidelines include declaring results of students as \u2018Qualified\u2019 (Passed) of \u2018Needs Improvement\u2019 (Detained).&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The director also assured that Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) will be strictly implemented for the benefit of the students to monitor their learning on daily basis.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;Kesiezie lamented that after the implementation of the RTE Act, there was hard negative impact of both students and teachers . He said in 2013 out of 35,000 students who appeared for Class IX exam, only 20,000 passed while in 2014, 4000 students dropped out of the schools before completion of the academic year due to the NDP.<\/div>\n<div>He also said due to NDP the quality of education has been greatly undermined as even teachers showed a casual attitude. Kesiezie said three states had not implemented the NDP and those that implemented it were also facing serious problems about the policy.<\/div>\n<div>He asserted that though CCE did not serve the desired objective in the earlier years there will be provision for improvement examination for students who were graded \u201cNeeds Improvement\u201d so that they were eligible for promotion to the next higher class.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Kesiezie disclosed that Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2014 stated that 51% of class V students of both private and government schools could not read class II text books while 71% of the class V students could not do multiplication, division and subtraction.<\/div>\n<div>He also informed that SCERT toured all the districts and took suggestion and views of the parents, teachers and societies. He said it reported that the NDP has the tendency to spoil the career of the students and thereby state could not wait for the ministry to revoke the policy.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>He also said SCERT had a series consultations and meetings and also mentioned the concern voiced out by the NSF, ENSF and other civil organizations.<\/div>\n<div>Kesiezie also said SCERT also held meetings with State Level Education Committees and SCERT being the academic authority in the state, has the official mandate of the school education as well.<\/div>\n<div>NSF president Tongpang Ozukum also expressed the opinion of the NSF that the NDP should be completely revoked.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>ENSF president Shahsha L. Menhahu congratulated SCERT for revising the policy and urged that it implement the revised guidelines in letter and spirit.<\/div>\n<div>At the request of the All Nagaland Private Schools Association (ANPSA), for guidelines to have three times evaluation or examination in a year, SCERT has allowed four times of evaluation or examination for the current academic session.<\/div>\n<div>The revised guidelines includes:<\/div>\n<div>1. Students will be declared either as \u201cqualified\u201d (Passed) or \u201cneed improvement\u201d (Detained) .<\/div>\n<div>2. Continuous &amp; Comprehensive Evaluation will be continued where weightage will be given to the three areas, namely, Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor domains for all round development of the child.<\/div>\n<div>3. There will be three times evaluation or examination in a year with the existing pattern of 40% Internal and 60% External respectively. Minimum qualifying marks will be 40% for both internal and external respectively.<\/div>\n<div>4. Remedial teaching and improvement examination will commence from the first valuation\/examination for students who fail to secure minimum qualifying marks.<\/div>\n<div>5. For the final result, in order to continue with the spirit and the philosophy of CCE and to make the evaluation student-friendly, there will be provision for improvement examination for those students who are graded \u201cNeeds Improvement\u201d so that they are eligible for promotion to the next higher class. The school will conduct \u201cImprovement Examination\u201d for those students within a week\u2019s time after declaration of the Final Results.<\/div>\n<div>6. Students failing to qualify in the \u201cImprovement Examination\u201d despite the opportunity provided shall be detained in the same class.<\/div>\n<div>Briefing media persons and other Organisations at the meeting Director SCERT said that the Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009 has a provision which stipulated that no student should be detained at any level of class till completion of Elementary Education (Class I-VIII). The NDP was provided for the benefit of the students and in order to ensure the students learning, Continuous &amp; Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) has been put in place to monitor the students\u2019 learning on daily basis.<\/div>\n<div>However with the implementation of NDP many students neglect studies as they knew that they would not be detained, irrespective of their performances and which adversely affected quality of education.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>He said another negative impact of NDP was the casual attitude of some of the teachers towards their duty. Many Organisations, including NSF, ENSF and parents have lodge complaints to the government demanding that the policy be revoked as it was cause a negative impact in the society particularly the students.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Kesiezie also mentioned that 41% of class IX students in 2013 failed in their final examination, which he felt that NDP was one of the factors for such result s. The Director also sought the support of NSF and ENSF for the proper implementation of the revised guidelines of Non Detention Policy.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagaland became the first state in India to revise guidelines to the Non-Detention Policy (NDP) under the Right To Education (RTE) Act after the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) notified revised guidelines which came into immediate effect.&nbsp; This was disclosed by Director, SCERT Vipralhou Kesiezie at a press conference held Tuesday afternoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}