Mysuru: A five-day training-cum-workshop on Testing & Evaluation and Item Writing for the Hindi Research Scholars of the country began at National Testing Service-India (NTS-I) of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), here on Monday.
Pankaj Dwivedi, Officer In-charge of NTS-I, in his inaugural address, introduced the academic activities of CIIL and of its various projects/schemes and emphasised on the importance of testing and evaluation process in the area of language education. He added that there is dire need for language teachers and educationists to work together when it comes to designing language learning curriculum, language teaching materials, assessment programmes, professional or academic tests, examination, etc. Only then, a balance between teaching, learning and assessment may be struck, he added.
