ગુણોત્સવ 2.0 ના શાળા રીપોર્ટ કાર્ડ
What is Gunotsav?
This is how Gunotsav works: every government and government-aided elementary school in the state assesses itself based on prescribed parameters, and on pre-specified days each year holds standardised tests for students from Classes 2 to 8. About 25% randomly selected schools in each block are subjected to a surprise assessment by an external examiner who, in theory, observes the school’s activities for an entire day. This examiner can be anyone, from the chief minister or his ministers to senior civil servants and district administration and education department officials. The surprise external assessment is intended to keep school administrations on their toes and to act as a disincentive against cheating or fixing the self-assessment. Gupta said that this was to make teachers accountable.
Disparities in the grading of schools under Gunotsav have become evident in the results of the eighth edition of the annual evaluation of government primary school children in 33,000 schools in the state. With the number of schools graded differing greatly between how internal evaluators and external evaluators assess them, based on academic and non-academic parameters, the education department had already initiated new evaluation methods from the current academic year onwards.
The data from Gunotsav VIII (2018-19) accessed by this paper illustrate why these changes were required.
Based on parameters that measure only academic performance, 1,563 schools received A+ grade, while this number shoots up 14 times to 23,228 schools when evaluated on non-academic parameters. As for the overall ranking, considering both academic and non-academic parameters, as many as 3,207 schools are listed under A+ grade, an increase from 2,117 schools in the previous academic session.
While there has not been much of an increase between academic years 2016 and 2017 where 1960 and 2117 schools respectively were graded A+, there is a huge disparity in the way internal assessors and external evaluators grade schools, as internal evaluators classify more schools under A+ grade and fewer schools under the low grade of D, compared to external assessors, across districts.
Surprisingly, it is only in the A+ grade that the number of schools excelling in academic performance is much lower than the number of schools performing well in non-academic parameters. The gap declines with the grades and subsequently reverses till the bottom grade D.
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