Prof. Kazi Mohammed Main Uddin :
According to the syllabus, in a class at a certain age, what kind of knowledge the student could achieve about text topics or what kind of efficiency could achieve, there is a need to verify this. This verification is evaluation. And one of the most common means of evaluation is experimentation. The synonyms of experimentation are examination, test etc. As per the prescribed curriculum and syllabus in the teaching programme, the students how much progress have made at the end of the specified time; to know it formally the applicable narrow methodological evaluation is called the test or examination.
The English terminology of the ‘test’ is ‘Examination’ The word ‘Examination’ comes from the English word ‘Exam’. The word ‘Exam’ means to investigate, search, or test. From the origin point of view, the investigation or search operation which is conducted to know something is called Examination. It can be said in the broadest sense, testing is a system by which the knowledge or skills or talents of the organisms participating in that system are verified.
Examination is one of the most widely accepted and widely used measures to check students’ progress. So there is a need for examination. Examination is needed to take steps to remove the weaknesses of the students, by indentifying their weaknesses by assessing the progress of the teaching on various subjects. The examination is required to measure the skill and interests of the studnets are high in some matters. It is also needed to verify if a student is suitable for studying in the next class or studying at the next level of education. Through the test, we can measure the talent of the students. We can also distinguish between the weak and the talented. We can know the progress of the lesson of the students through the examination. Depth of students’ knowledge can be measured through by the examination. The students become self confident and self dependent through the test. Internal examination is required to prepare the students for public examination. So we have to accept the test requirements.
Examination from pre-primary to third grade (class three) is required. We can split children into two parts. One is the earlier stage of adolescence and the other is the later stage of adolescence. The age of the children in the first level are maximum eleven years old and the age of the children in the second level are twelve to sixteen years old. In these two stage children, first level children generally have no fear of the examination. They tend to wait with joy for the exam day. I have observed a few children of different families; they are asking guardians time and again, when the test will take place. They were unstable for that day. They find novelty in the exam. Examinations give them one kind of innovations outside of class activities. From the practical experience, it is said that the students who are participated in the Primary Education Completion (PEC) exam, are running with joy in the field of exam centre before starting the exam. There have not noticed the fear of exam to them. Some is rumored to tell the story. Some has cheered like them, sitting in the exam room before starting the exam.
Therefore, the fear of the exam is not generally noticed in the students who are candidate for Primary Education Completion examination that means students who are under eleven years old. Some of these cases, it is observed that self-family stresses children to achieve expected result or failing to achieve the expected result or if they answered the question incorrectly, the parents punish the children; such as scorn. For this kind of incident, though in the short range, fear of the exam is created in the children. Beside some individual owned educational institutions and some non-government educational intuitions create pressure to the students for anticipation good result in the Primary Education Completion (PEC) examination. So that the children are mentally upset and to be scared.
That means the fear of exam are created to the children; which is remain limited only to PEC examination in the short cases. But in the large cases, the children do not have fear of exam. By the way it is said that the exam fear is usually created to the children at the post adolescent level. At this time they have different needs in their growing body. Interest is created in various things such as; food, clothing, opposite gender attraction etc. From this interest, misunderstanding is caused. As a result, they have to face family, social and institution-based punishment. For all these different types of incident what create the psychological stresses that terrified them. All of these are added their education matter, good result or vice-versa; begins family or institutional punishment. Thus, the fear of examination is created in them.
Generally pre-primary to the child students of class three do not have to face such condition. So they have no fear of examination. So the excuse for fear of exam; It may not be acceptable for the students of pre-primary to class three, to stop taking exam or to turn off for some other reasons. What is not acceptable cannot be right-this is a theory. To destroy a country, it has to destroy the education system of the country; no mortar is needed. To plan for the destruction of the education system, long term plans have to be adopted. Enemies can do this.
That is why it must have to be careful with any plan in the field of education. We need to gain a deeper knowledge on the educational system and education policies of the neibouring compatible with our surroundings and the advanced & wealthier state than we are. Then a plan has to be adopted.
Today the child is admitted to school, after 22 years the state can expect to receive something from him. At all, you can hold up to 25 years. The seed that will be sown today, you will expect return from it after 25 years. By this time he has to be properly prepared. So the age of admission to pre-primary class should be 4+ (Four plus) years. It has to plan so that the student within from 14+ years to under 17 years of age can achieve the tenth grade (SSC) pass certificate. However in order to achieve the certificate within 14+years, the child has to be prepared. In the context of Bangladesh this is the age according to science to achieve the tenth grade (SSC) certificate. Two types of assessment are essential for children and adolescent to know their lessons improvement from pre-primary to upper secondary level.
One of them is structural evaluation and the other is comprehensive evaluation. For rightly prepared the students must need to assess right way. The learning activities in educational institutions under the supervision of subject teachers to assess student learning progress and the overall continuous process of measuring their intellectual, emotional, behavioural & psychopathic skills through the year is called structural evaluation. It can be called continuous evaluation. On the other hands, the cumulative assessment is the assessment that is performed to assess the extent to which a student is able to quality after the completion the students tutoring process.
Generally the assessment that conducted through the first periodic, second periodic, annual or Public examination, is a comprehensive evaluation. A small number of educational institutions in Bangladesh are undergoing structural evaluation. Government high schools have the structural assessment system. This is a means for students to gain subject-based knowledge; but not enough.
One of the most common and most popular methods of students’ assessment is comprehensive evaluation. Any assessment other than a comprehensive evaluation is meaningless. Therefore a comprehensive assessment is essential to verify a student’s ability. This enables students to qualify for the next class. Also, the qualifications for obtaining a certificate in public examination, qualification for obtaining a job are judged through the comprehensive assessment. On the other hands, structural or continuous assessment is a very marrow means of judging students ability. Metaphorically speaking, loading cargo boat arrive close to the shore by the sea can be compared with the comprehensive evaluation and from the shoreline to reach the shore can be compared with the structural or continuous evaluation. The comprehensive evaluation can be done 90 and the structural evaluation can be done 10. Both two are made 100.
(Prof. Kazi Mohammed Main Uddin , Teacher of Higher Education, Presidium Member of Bangladesh College Teachers Association; e-mail: [email protected])
It has been noticed in Bangladesh for the last few years that there are basically two institutional tests conducted at the secondary level. One is the first periodic examination and the other is the annual examination. Previously a second periodic examination was held in the middle of these two tests. But at the primary level three institutional tests are still conducted. At present in primary level, from pre-primary to class three the authority take a decision to cancel the test. It is being noticed that the divergence in exam to the authority. It is generally observed that children from pre-primary to this grade, even fourth and fifth grade, participate in various tests with great pleasure. So cancelling the examination cannot be accepted or endorsed for the sake of proper development of children education. So I think, from pre-primary to third grade, cancelling the examination will be suicidal. That is to say, there is need for exam. It should be noted that beginning to take discussion for cancelling the test the authority withdrawn its decision to cancel the exam from pre-primary to third grade. But now the authority go back the past. That is, to be taking decision for cancelling the exam from pre-primary to class three. It is a pity. Cancellation cannot be accepted or endorsed for the sake of proper development of infant education. That is to say, there is a need for testing.
According to the syllabus, in a class at a certain age, what kind of knowledge the student could achieve about text topics or what kind of efficiency could achieve, there is a need to verify this. This verification is evaluation. And one of the most common means of evaluation is experimentation. The synonyms of experimentation are examination, test etc. As per the prescribed curriculum and syllabus in the teaching programme, the students how much progress have made at the end of the specified time; to know it formally the applicable narrow methodological evaluation is called the test or examination.
The English terminology of the ‘test’ is ‘Examination’ The word ‘Examination’ comes from the English word ‘Exam’. The word ‘Exam’ means to investigate, search, or test. From the origin point of view, the investigation or search operation which is conducted to know something is called Examination. It can be said in the broadest sense, testing is a system by which the knowledge or skills or talents of the organisms participating in that system are verified.
Examination is one of the most widely accepted and widely used measures to check students’ progress. So there is a need for examination. Examination is needed to take steps to remove the weaknesses of the students, by indentifying their weaknesses by assessing the progress of the teaching on various subjects. The examination is required to measure the skill and interests of the studnets are high in some matters. It is also needed to verify if a student is suitable for studying in the next class or studying at the next level of education. Through the test, we can measure the talent of the students. We can also distinguish between the weak and the talented. We can know the progress of the lesson of the students through the examination. Depth of students’ knowledge can be measured through by the examination. The students become self confident and self dependent through the test. Internal examination is required to prepare the students for public examination. So we have to accept the test requirements.
Examination from pre-primary to third grade (class three) is required. We can split children into two parts. One is the earlier stage of adolescence and the other is the later stage of adolescence. The age of the children in the first level are maximum eleven years old and the age of the children in the second level are twelve to sixteen years old. In these two stage children, first level children generally have no fear of the examination. They tend to wait with joy for the exam day. I have observed a few children of different families; they are asking guardians time and again, when the test will take place. They were unstable for that day. They find novelty in the exam. Examinations give them one kind of innovations outside of class activities. From the practical experience, it is said that the students who are participated in the Primary Education Completion (PEC) exam, are running with joy in the field of exam centre before starting the exam. There have not noticed the fear of exam to them. Some is rumored to tell the story. Some has cheered like them, sitting in the exam room before starting the exam.
Therefore, the fear of the exam is not generally noticed in the students who are candidate for Primary Education Completion examination that means students who are under eleven years old. Some of these cases, it is observed that self-family stresses children to achieve expected result or failing to achieve the expected result or if they answered the question incorrectly, the parents punish the children; such as scorn. For this kind of incident, though in the short range, fear of the exam is created in the children. Beside some individual owned educational institutions and some non-government educational intuitions create pressure to the students for anticipation good result in the Primary Education Completion (PEC) examination. So that the children are mentally upset and to be scared.
That means the fear of exam are created to the children; which is remain limited only to PEC examination in the short cases. But in the large cases, the children do not have fear of exam. By the way it is said that the exam fear is usually created to the children at the post adolescent level. At this time they have different needs in their growing body. Interest is created in various things such as; food, clothing, opposite gender attraction etc. From this interest, misunderstanding is caused. As a result, they have to face family, social and institution-based punishment. For all these different types of incident what create the psychological stresses that terrified them. All of these are added their education matter, good result or vice-versa; begins family or institutional punishment. Thus, the fear of examination is created in them.
Generally pre-primary to the child students of class three do not have to face such condition. So they have no fear of examination. So the excuse for fear of exam; It may not be acceptable for the students of pre-primary to class three, to stop taking exam or to turn off for some other reasons. What is not acceptable cannot be right-this is a theory. To destroy a country, it has to destroy the education system of the country; no mortar is needed. To plan for the destruction of the education system, long term plans have to be adopted. Enemies can do this.
That is why it must have to be careful with any plan in the field of education. We need to gain a deeper knowledge on the educational system and education policies of the neibouring compatible with our surroundings and the advanced & wealthier state than we are. Then a plan has to be adopted.
Today the child is admitted to school, after 22 years the state can expect to receive something from him. At all, you can hold up to 25 years. The seed that will be sown today, you will expect return from it after 25 years. By this time he has to be properly prepared. So the age of admission to pre-primary class should be 4+ (Four plus) years. It has to plan so that the student within from 14+ years to under 17 years of age can achieve the tenth grade (SSC) pass certificate. However in order to achieve the certificate within 14+years, the child has to be prepared. In the context of Bangladesh this is the age according to science to achieve the tenth grade (SSC) certificate. Two types of assessment are essential for children and adolescent to know their lessons improvement from pre-primary to upper secondary level.
One of them is structural evaluation and the other is comprehensive evaluation. For rightly prepared the students must need to assess right way. The learning activities in educational institutions under the supervision of subject teachers to assess student learning progress and the overall continuous process of measuring their intellectual, emotional, behavioural & psychopathic skills through the year is called structural evaluation. It can be called continuous evaluation. On the other hands, the cumulative assessment is the assessment that is performed to assess the extent to which a student is able to quality after the completion the students tutoring process.
Generally the assessment that conducted through the first periodic, second periodic, annual or Public examination, is a comprehensive evaluation. A small number of educational institutions in Bangladesh are undergoing structural evaluation. Government high schools have the structural assessment system. This is a means for students to gain subject-based knowledge; but not enough.
One of the most common and most popular methods of students’ assessment is comprehensive evaluation. Any assessment other than a comprehensive evaluation is meaningless. Therefore a comprehensive assessment is essential to verify a student’s ability. This enables students to qualify for the next class. Also, the qualifications for obtaining a certificate in public examination, qualification for obtaining a job are judged through the comprehensive assessment. On the other hands, structural or continuous assessment is a very marrow means of judging students ability. Metaphorically speaking, loading cargo boat arrive close to the shore by the sea can be compared with the comprehensive evaluation and from the shoreline to reach the shore can be compared with the structural or continuous evaluation. The comprehensive evaluation can be done 90 and the structural evaluation can be done 10. Both two are made 100.
(Prof. Kazi Mohammed Main Uddin , Teacher of Higher Education, Presidium Member of Bangladesh College Teachers Association; e-mail: [email protected])
It has been noticed in Bangladesh for the last few years that there are basically two institutional tests conducted at the secondary level. One is the first periodic examination and the other is the annual examination. Previously a second periodic examination was held in the middle of these two tests. But at the primary level three institutional tests are still conducted. At present in primary level, from pre-primary to class three the authority take a decision to cancel the test. It is being noticed that the divergence in exam to the authority. It is generally observed that children from pre-primary to this grade, even fourth and fifth grade, participate in various tests with great pleasure. So cancelling the examination cannot be accepted or endorsed for the sake of proper development of children education. So I think, from pre-primary to third grade, cancelling the examination will be suicidal. That is to say, there is need for exam. It should be noted that beginning to take discussion for cancelling the test the authority withdrawn its decision to cancel the exam from pre-primary to third grade. But now the authority go back the past. That is, to be taking decision for cancelling the exam from pre-primary to class three. It is a pity. Cancellation cannot be accepted or endorsed for the sake of proper development of infant education. That is to say, there is a need for testing.
