When a child reaches higher classes the most difficult task for the child and the parent is to decide as to which stream one should go for. Many a times it is the friends who decide, many a times it is forced by the parents and rarely it is selected as per the capabilities of the child. Many experts have written articles, many schools have professional help on this and still the issue persists. Here is an effort by NCERT on this....
The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has developed a test to identify the potential and inherent abilities of children to help them zero in on the streams they should opt for in higher classes.
The council’s department of psychology and foundation of education is finalising the norms for the test, to be taken in Class 9, and is already conducting trial runs at regional institutes.
Besides testing the verbal, mechanical, abstract, spatial and perceptive rationale of the child, it will use diagrams and figures to assess his/her reasoning abilities.
Read details of this news in a report by Neelam Pandey published in Hindustan Times...
