CBSE went ahead with OSM rollout without regional trials
New Delhi, May 27 -- The Central Board of Secondary Education appears to have ignored views from its own governing body members to hold pilot projects across regional offices before rolling out the new on-screen marking (OSM) system for Class 12 board examinations this year, according to minutes of a meeting seen by HT.
The board instead conducted a two-day exercise involving only 100 teachers at five Delhi schools in January - teachers who participated told HT they had advised CBSE not to proceed with the rollout, citing the need for better features, more training and time adapt to the system.
The system is now at the centre of a storm, with evaluators saying OSM introduced a completely alien workflow, produced shoddy answer-script scans a...
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