COVID-19: CISCE decentralizes evaluation process; teachers to work from home

The Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) has decentralized its evaluation process for teachers working from home in the wake of rising in coronavirus cases around the country.

Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 and to avoid its further spread, the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) has announced that the evaluation of the answer papers will be decentralized as the examiners will now work from home.

The CISCE Board came out with this decision to go for decentralized evaluation process for ICSE Class 10^th and 12^th Board examination papers to keep all teachers safe amid the rise in coronavirus cases in the country.

Till now, teachers who were involved in the evaluation process of ICSE Board Examination had to be present at the evaluation centre for the correction of the answer sheets. With this move, now teachers will be able to safely continue their evaluation work from home.

As per the official notification released by the Board, on Day 1, the Chief Examiner, Co-Chief Examiner, and Examiner Coordinator of evaluation centre will meet the examiners for a short period of time, in order to discuss the marking scheme, provide them instructions, and hand over the boxes containing the answer sheets. Each examiner has to make sure that the answer script boxes assigned to them reach safely to his/her residence.

Each examiner needs to do the marking of the answer sheets during the allocated time, under the mentorship of supervisor the official notification stated. The supervisor has to make sure that teachers are able to finish the evaluation work of the number of answer sheets assigned to them in a day.

Once the evaluation is completed by teachers for ICSE Class 10^th and 12^th Board Exam 2020; they have to upload the final marks on LICR Tabs available at the evaluation centres. This has been done on the result processing software by the teachers during the given timeframe.

Teachers will have to bring back all the answer sheets which were evaluated by them back to the evaluation centre once they are done with while process.

The coronavirus cases in India has today crossed 200 after 13 new cases emerging from various parts of the country. This includes 32 foreign nationals and four deaths from Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Punjab.

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