Mysore :
National Testing Service-India (NTS-I) of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) has been organising series of special lectures by eminent scholars at CIIL, Mysore. One such lecture was held on Nov. 12 at CIIL.
Prof. Qazi Afzal Husain (Director, APDUMT, Aligarh Muslim University, UP) delivered a lecture on “Evaluation of Language and Literature with Special Reference to Post Modernism in Urdu” and Prof. Shamim Hanafi (Professor Emeritus, Jamia Millia Islamiah, New Delhi) delivered a lecture on “Evaluation of Culture in Urdu Language and Literature”.
Prof. Awadesh Kumar Mishra, Director, CIIL, presided.
Around 100 participants comprising distinguished scholars of Urdu, research scholars of Urdu from the University of Mysore and the staff of NTS-I, NTM and LDC-IL of CIIL attended.
Dr. M. Balakumar (Head, NTS-I) coordinated the programme. Dr. L. Ramamoorthy (Head, LDC-IL), Dr. V. Ilangovan (SRP, NTS-I), Dr. Biresh Kumar (RP, NTS-I) were present.
Workshop
Besides this, a five-day workshop on scrutiny of Conceptual Explanations of the aspects for assessing language and literature included in the General Frame of Reference (GFR) began at the National Testing Service-India (NTS-I) of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) on Nov. 11. This workshop was initiated to finalise the Urdu version. The same task will be carried out in all the other Indian languages soon.
In this workshop, the accuracy and appropriacy of the coinage of terms, language used in explanations, consistency in the usage of terminologies across levels and the overall readability of the explanations are verified. Besides, the experts will provide model question items for testing each of the terms explained. The General Frame of Reference comprises approximately about 700 terms in the areas of Language, Literature and Personality.
The explanations were prepared by the resource persons of Urdu of NTS-I. They are being checked by the subject experts for their conceptual clarity and language uniformity. The experts lauded the initiation of the work as it is very relevant and necessary, which will in turn help many stakeholders of education and also opined that the material will help in the creation of technical manpower in the area of testing and evaluation, one of the crucial area of education.
The experts participating in this programme are Prof. Qazi Jamal Hussian (AMU, Aligarh), Prof. Ali Ahmad Fatmi (University of Allahabad), Prof. Rafathunnisa Begum, Prof. Safdar Imam Qadri, Prof. Masood Siraj and Dr. Abdur Rahman (from University of Mysore).
The Urdu academics of NTS-I — Dr. G.M. Ansari, Dr. Md. Rizwan, Dr. Salim Ahmed and Dr. Zubair Shadab Khan — are assisting the experts under the supervision of Dr. M. Balakumar, Head, NTS-I. Prof. Awadesh Kumar Mishra, Director, CIIL is providing the overall guidance for the programme.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / November 13th, 2013