Holistic progress card is promoted by NCERT for student tracking

The Holistic Progress Card (HPC) is a comprehensive student monitoring tool that is recommended for use up to class 8 by the NCERT. It is created by PARAKH and evaluates a number of domains in addition to include self- and peer-assessment. Plans for growth to higher courses and digitization are in progress, along with ongoing training activities.

PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development), a national assessment centre under the NCERT, has developed the progress card for the foundational stage of classes 1 and 2), the preparatory stage of classes 3 to 5, and middle stage of classes 6 to 8.

HPC takes into account feedback from peers, parents, and self-assessment of students to track their progress in different domains throughout the year. The NCERT and the Central Board of Secondary Education conducted a pilot of HPC in select schools last year.

The progress card is a comprehensive assessment of children throughout the year, said Indrani Bhaduri, CEO of PARAKH. “It will document his or her achievements in different domains, including physical, socio-emotional, literacy, studies, and others, in a year. We are advocating it for all schools,” she said. “Many private schools have approached PARAKH for training their teachers.”

The card will also form an important link between the home and school and will be accompanied by parent-teacher meetings to actively involve parents in their children’s holistic education and development.

PARAKH has so far trained faculty from the state councils of educational research and training, teachers from all the district institutes of education and training, and 100 teachers from each state as master trainers.

PARAKH is working on digitising the progress cards, she said, adding that the council is presently working on the framework for classes 9 to 12 as well. “Many states have started translating HPC into their regional languages. The Hindi translation has been done by Haryana, Chandigarh, and Chhattisgarh. Maharashtra is also doing it in Marathi,” Bhaduri said.