Indian Education Repository

The handbook was developed to create a robust system of continuous and adaptive assessment to continuously inform teaching- learning processes and optimize learning for all students as a key focus area of the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020. It was designed to help teachers of all subjects to design test items that are a valid and reliable measure of the student learning.
Some of the intended objectives were– (i) Provide guidance for test developers who create questions or tasks for learning assessments
(ii) Ellaborate the role of an learning frameworks for item writing, characteristics, and development of high-quality assessment instruments
(iii) Provide inputs for writing good items, including the construction of marking guides