Monday, September 15, 2014

SSA QUALITY MONITORING TOOLS



NCERT QUALITY MONITORING TOOLS (QMT)
Introduction
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the flagship programme of Government of India
Aims at providing quality elementary education to all children in the age group of 6 to 14 years

The National Curriculum Framework, 2005 also emphasizes the need for improvement in the quality of education. In the context of elementary education following quality dimensions have been identified
Quality Dimensions of Elementary Educaton
}Basic Infrastructure and other Facilities
}Management and Community Support
}School and Classroom Environment
}Curriculum and Teaching Learning Material
}Teacher and Teacher Preparation
}Opportunity Time (Teaching-Learning Time)
}Classroom Practices and Processes

}Learners' Assessment, Monitoring and Supervision
The objectives of implementation of Quality
Monitoring Tools
}To institutionalize quality monitoring system of elementary education in the States/ UTs.
}To promote understanding of various dimensions of quality of elementary education among State,district, sub-district and school functionaries. 
Objectives
}To ascertain the participation of community in functioning and monitoring of elementary education system.
}To improve the quality of elementary education as envisaged in RTE Act 2009.
}To monitor the progress of and provide feedback on various dimensions of quality education at elementary level within and outside the classroom, and finally
VARIOUS FORMATS
}SMF: reflects upon the status of various indicators influencing the quality of school education.
}SMCF: provides information on perception of SMC members about the functioning of school.
}COS: records information about various aspects of classroom processes in progress. 
}CMF: Part I- consolidated information of all schools in the cluster collected through SMFs.
 Part II: perception of CRCC about functioning of schools in the cluster
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