AICTE says that open book exams for engineering courses, if approved, will only be used to test few competencies
c Chandandeep.K@timesgroup.com
The All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE) last week submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Human
Resources (MHRD) to include open book examinations as a part of its Exam
Reform Policy for various engineering courses.
The proposal, if approved, will only be used to
test some competencies of the engineering students. “This is an evolving
process and will be a part of the exam reform policy of the model
curriculum. We have just introduced the idea and will take time to
implement it,” says Rajive Kumar, Advisor –I(P&- AP), AICTE. He adds
the AICTE has, other than the open book exam, introduced Bloom’s
taxonomy framework to set question papers. Bloom’s taxonomy is a set of
three hierarchical models used to classify educational learning
objectives into levels of complexity and specificity. The three lists
cover the learning objectives in cognitive, affective and sensory
domains.
Kumar says, “A need was felt to revise the curriculum as students were
studying the syllabus that had not been revised for 10-15 years.
Irrelevant courses have been removed and new technologies have been
introduced.”
