Do not compare students with peers- says NCERT
The National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) has asked teachers and parents not to “label” students on the basis of their performance or compare their grades with those of others. NCERT while announcing the fresh guidelines for Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) said that evaluation often is thought as labelling or comparing performance of children against one another through marks, grades or any other means by pointing out their weaknesses. “This kind of practice only humiliates students and lowers their self-esteem,” as…