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Honesty, morals to figure 30pc marks for school students

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The government is going to implement school-based assessment (SBA) programme from the next year that aims at judging students' extra curricular performances along with academic education, education ministry sources said.
Thirty percent of a student's marks in classes six to nine will be given by class teachers on the basis of attendance in classes, interest in
lessons, individual and group assignments, honesty, values and morals, leadership capacity, discipline, participation in cultural activities, achievement in sports, practical performance in science classes etc.
The purpose of the SBA is to have a continuous evaluation of the students and detection of students' weakness throughout the year rather than having an assessment She ^tar
on the basis of two term examinations.
Meanwhile, it is alleged that some major yardsticks of assessment under the SBA programme have not been set whereas there is question about the teachers' ability to judge students' morality, honesty, values and behaviour.
The ministry did not set any criteria to judge the matters.
The government has also ignored serious objections about administrative procedures in the secondary schools.
The plans were sent to the prime minister for approval in June even though there was a recommendation within the ministry to continue the SBA programme on an experimental basis until the end of the year and take the final decision on the basis of the feedback.
Prof Maniruzzaman Miah, who headed the National Education Commission Report 2003 in which school-based assessment was first proposed, said the government decision to implement the SBA is too premature.
Teachers should be trained according to the requirement of the programme which is very vital before introducing the school-based assessment, he added.
Miah said he has not been consulted or invited to attend meetings on the SBA system since he submitted his reportin 2004.
Only 17.4 per cent of the teachers of 20 secondary schools and 20 madrasas where the SBA pilot project was undertaken, received training on how to work with the new system, a ministry report said.
'Widespread limitations in the evaluation process and maintenance of academic records on extracurricular activities have been observed during the pilot project,' the report pointed out.
It is impossible for the education ministry to train 4.5 lakh teachers for the SBA programme by the year-end.
The government has decided to implement the project without even collecting most of the feedback inputs from the schools under the pilot project.
Meanwhile, a senior official of the education ministry said the ministry has not yet finalised the project.
"It will be launched once everything is incorporated in the project," said the official requesting anonymity.
The SBA is part of a Tk 490-crore Secondary Education Sector Improvement Project funded by a loan from theAsian Development Bank.