Delhi govt to digitise process of exam data tabulation, move to benefit 60,000 teachers
Around 60,000 teachers at Delhi government schools will be relieved of the tedious work of result tabulation and their focus now will be more on checking answer scripts as the whole process is going to be digitised.
On an average each subject teacher of the Delhi government has been spending about 50 hours and class teachers around 310 hours every year for exams-related work at the cost of their teaching and family time, according to officials of the Directorate of Education (DoE).
The work includes checking answer scripts of students by the subject teacher, recording the marks on the reward list, cross-checking by another teacher, collation of all subject marks by class teachers, recording the marks in teacher's diary and in master record sheet, transferring the data on an online module followed by preparation of individual report cards.
"This amount of time is consumed because most of the work is done manually. But not anymore," said Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who is ...