The Central Board of Secondary Education is planning to conduct engineering and medical entrance examinations online.
The board is planning to develop a test similar to that of SAT that will be worked out in partnership with an international organisation.
For this, the Centre for Assessment, Evaluation and Research will be set up and it will work with an international partner organisation on public-private partnership mode to carry forward reforms in education.
The group will work under the centre’s department of research and assessment and will be responsible for developing and designing assessment test similar to SAT.
“This will be followed by the identification and establishment of core subject groups who will then continue to create, trial and support implementing of resources for school-based assessment,” a CBSE circular said.
The department will representatives of the schools for assessment. The trained professional will then guide other teachers of the school regarding assessment policies and resources.
The department will also aim at collecting student data from all schools to track and report on student learning and will particularly identify areas where improvement is needed or where there is inadequate resourcing, the circular said.
The other two departments of the centre would be the department of professional development and leadership and publications department.