Page 12 - Handbook for Parents

HOME WORK POLICY ASSESSMENT AND

• Revisiting the lessons learnt is a EVALUATION
must for effective retention and
reproduction. Keeping with this The teaching-learning process is
thought, home work is structured to considered incomplete without an
attain optimal learning. effective Evaluation. According to

• Depending on the academic level of the National Curriculum Framework
students, home work may either be (NCF), the most authentic and effective
practice of content or skills learnt
in class; or an exercise to provoke evaluation must be
thought and direct the mind towards • Regular and distributed throughout
a particular theme/ concept. the year and not time bound. It must
• Parents are intimated about the happen during the forming stages of
homework through the school learning leading to the identification
almanac and are expected to of learning gaps and having scope
ensure its completion. They should
aim at motivating their ward in for remedial action.
understanding the importance of • Assessment of holistic development
revision and must refrain from of the learner should encompass
completing the assignments cognitive, affective and psychomotor
themselves.
domains.
• Evaluation must include the use of a
variety of tools and techniques and
♫ must be unambiguous, scientific,

and analytical.
♫ Evaluation at SGS is in accordance

♫
with the above mentioned concept
and includes the assessment of
both scholastic and co- scholastic
aspects of a pupil's learning. Life
Skills, Attitudes and Values; as well
as Physical Fitness of the student is
also assessed and reported.

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