Participants during a 4-day workshop on ‘PARAKH Taxonomy and Development competency Based Question Bank for ITMS organised by the NBSE, Kohima in collaboration with PARAKH-NCERT, Delhi from June 2 – 5 at NBSE, Kohima. (DIPR Photo)
Kohima, June 2 (MExN): The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE), in collaboration with PARAKH-NCERT, New Delhi, commenced a four-day workshop on "PARAKH Taxonomy and Development of Competency Based Question Bank for ITMS" at NBSE, Kohima on June 2.
The workshop will continue till June 5 and is attended by 73 teachers from across the state.
Delivering the welcome address, Secretary and Chairperson (Additional Charge), NBSE, Rangumbuing Nsarangbe, said the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has set the direction for transforming the education system and that the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2023 has begun translating that vision into practice.
"PARAKH at NCERT has now given the system two specific instruments to work with – the Holistic Progress Card and the Taxonomy and guidelines for setting a balanced question paper, and the workshop will mainly dwell on the second instrument," he said.
He appreciated PARAKH-NCERT for its guidance and acknowledged the contribution of teachers involved in the examination process.
He assured that the outcomes of the four-day workshop will be translated to shape the fundamentals of an examination question paper," the report stated.
A keynote address and programme introduction were delivered virtually by Prof. Indrani Bhaduri, CEO and Head of PARAKH.
She said the structured assessment taxonomy represents a significant shift in India's school education system in line with the vision of NEP 2020.
"PARAKH's taxonomy provides a coherent framework to align curriculum, pedagogy and assessment with competency-based assessment," she said.
Prof. Bhaduri explained that the framework moves beyond traditional content-recall models and organises learning across progressive domains ranging from foundational understanding to higher-order thinking skills such as analysis, evaluation and creation.
She said competency-based question papers guided by the taxonomy help item writers design questions that map directly to defined competencies and cognitive levels rather than relying on rote learning.
She further noted that the taxonomy is closely linked to formative assessment through the Holistic Progress Card.
"PARAKH's taxonomy acts as the backbone of India's transition to competency-based education, bridging classroom practice and board assessment through a unified evidence-based framework," she said.
The inaugural programme was chaired by Siduniu Rentta, Assistant Academic Officer, NBSE, while the invocation was pronounced by Dziesevolie Tsürho, Academic Officer, NBSE.
