Orientation of Teacher Educators in designing questions on different competency level based on learning outcomes at secondary level (NEP-2020)

Abstract

Schools need to recognize learners’ capacity to construct knowledge as a natural learner and the knowledge as an outcome of engagement with the world around when learner explores, responds, invents and makes meaning of it. Focus must be on the process of learning in place of product of learning, emphasizing competency-based educational process. Assessment has always been an area of much concerned amongst the learners, parents and teachers. Higher Order Thinking Skills HOTS are important aspects in teaching and learning and is an area of sustaining interest as it prepares the learners not only in content but also for the futures. Thinking skills are fundamental in educational process.