Evaluation in Higher Education: A Report of the Seminars on Examination Reform Organized by the University Grants Commission Under the Leadership of Dr. Benjamin S. Bloom

Abstract

From Preface: The University Education Commission appointed by the Government of India in 1948 to report on the problems and needs of university education in India have stated as their view that if they had to suggest one single reform in university education it would be that of examination. It is one of the statutory functions of the University Grants Commission to consider problems relating to examinations and to bring about necessary improvements in the system. The University Grants Commission, therefore, appointed In 1958 a committee of persons with special knowledge and interests in this field to make a thorough study of the problems involved and propose remedial action. Meanwhile Dr. Benjamin S. Bloom, of the University of Chicago who was then engaged in directing 'workshops’ on evaluation in secondary education under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, kindly consented to organize four similar regional workshops for university teachers at the Universities of Osmania, Poona, Patna and Aligarh, The present volume is a summary of the theories and practices of evaluation discussed and worked out in these seminars.