The innovative methods in teaching foreign languages: the role of skill and translation in teaching namangan, uzbekistan

TRANSFORMING ASSESSMENT FOR STUDENT DEVELOPMENT IN NEP 
2020 
The NEP 2020 focuses on assessments and reforms in the board examination 
which is expected to bring improvement in students scholastically.
Till now Class 10 and 12 board exams are focused on two of the most significant 
achievements in a student’s life, i.e. on repetition learning or memorization 
Since the way to qualify the exam is to remember facts and procedures, rather than 
understanding them, a parallel tuitions industry has developed that encourages 
students to practice from previous years’ papers and memorize answers. Till date, 
many efforts have been made to make changes in board exams but the hard-to-
address problems of evaluating students’ genuine learning and conceptual 
understanding have been untouched. 
The second issue is the absence of rigorous assessments .Lack of student 
outcome data defeats the opportunity for correction in early years. The way in which 
the NEP 2020 addresses assessments is refreshing; it acknowledges some of the 
weaknesses in the system and offers remedial measures. 
A competency-based assessment framework 
The NEP recognizes the need to evaluate “higher-order skills. By emphasizing 
the need to redesign progress cards and board exams, it encourages testing core 
competencies to reduce academic pressure and the need for coaching classes. It 
suggests introducing standardized assessments in grades 3, 5, 8 to divert the pressure 
from 10th and 12th exam, and to track progress at multiple stages to facilitate early 
course-correction. The Haryana government, we witnessed the benefits of such an 
approach. When we began our work in the state in 2014, only 40-45% of students 
performed at grade-level competencies. The bigger issue was teachers having 
“syllabus-completion” mindset versus a “competency-attainment” mindset. Setting 
up a system of measurement of improvement of learning outcomes at the elementary 
school level meant a remarkable improvement in student competency in just a few 
years. 
An assessment in 2019 showed that students were meeting or exceeding 
competency goals. This involved training teachers to teach according to the 
competency framework developed for each grade and bimonthly rounds of 
standardized assessments across all schools.