Teaching And Evaluation Of Tamil Epics (In Tamil)

Language: Tamil
Pages: 322

Foreword



Teaching, learning and evaluation are the three important activities of
educational system and they are independent as well as interdependent
activities. For the system to be more effective, all the activities should be given
equal importance. The ineffectiveness of any one of these will affect the
system inexplicably. But the first two are, to a greater extent, emphasized in
the educational system. Evaluation, as such, is not cared enough not only in
language education but in other studies also. In fact, the process and product
are very much important as far as evaluation is concerned. Apart from these
two factors, namely, process and product, the ultimate objective of language
education is to scientifically and systematically evaluate the competence and
performance of the learners.


The National Testing Service-India established in the Central Institute
of Indian Languages to cater to the successful pedagogical needs of scientific
and systematic teaching, learning and evaluation in different levels of language
education has three primary objectives, namely, (i) creation of nationwide
consensus and awareness about concrete methods and purposes of
evaluation, (ii) production of basic reference materials and (iii) development of
training human resources in this area. The NTS-India has been conducting
orientation programmes for the teachers for successful implementation of the
stimulating research findings on the concept based continuum of graded
syllabi containing separate dimensions for language and literature.


The General Frame of Reference was first prepared in English by the
Centre for Testing and Evaluat