Section 22(3) in The U.P. Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2011
(3)[ The State Council of Educational Research and Training through internal and external organizations shall design and implement a process of holistic school quality assessment on a regular basis.(a)Performance of schools shall be assessed independently atleast once a year through a departmental assessment and mandatorily every two years through an assessment conducted by as external agency. For the annual independent assessment the State Council of Educational Reasearch and Training shall constitute an appropriate question bank on the basis of which the District Institute of Education and Training shall conduct an assessment on a random sample basis for each block wise and report will be submitted to the District Magistrate and Zila Basic Shiksha Adhikari by last week of December every year.In order to assess and improve quality of education, grading of each school shall be undertaken each year in the month of February on the basis of learning outcomes achieved by the students.(b)External agency for the purpose could be, inter alia, drawn from amongst Faculty of Education Department of various Universities and Colleges, various Research Institutes, reputed National Level Organisations/Non-Government Organisation involved in basic Education. Detailed terms of references be drawn and results be furnished within six months from the assignment of the assessment by the external agency. The report shall be published as a State Level School and learning Assessment Report.Parameters for external biennial assessment will, inter alia, be as follows;• Students' learning achievement levels;• Availability and use of textbooks, teacher guides and teaching learning materials in classroom teaching;• Opportunity to students for individual and group work;• Regular correction of the written work by the teachers;• Teachers' punctuality in attending schools and regularity in conduct of teaching learning;• Sharing of students' performance with parents on a regular basis;• Observation of teachers ability to teach and conduct classroom;• Percentage coverage of annual curriculum.The report shall, inter alia, furnish the outcomes of the school assessment district wise in descending order to the State Government State Council of Education Research and Training and Sarva shiksa abhiyan programme, for relevant action thereafter and will furnish block wise outcomes of the assessment to the District magistrate and zila basic shiksha adhikari for remedial action.] [Substituted by Notification No. 1933/68-5-2018-232-18, dated 7.12.2018.]
