Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and  Higher Secondary Education, Pune  Activity Based Evaluation
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Teachers’ Awareness Programme September 1st  and 2nd , 2017
PROSE
What are the objectives of teaching prose? 1. Improve speed of reading
2. Increase comprehension skills
3. Skim and predict the events to come
4. Read in order to infer through the context
5. Adopt different strategies depending on the type of texts and the purpose of reading
6. Read silently  to find out the suggestive meaning in a prose
7. Distinguish the main ideas from the subsidiary information 
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Prose
How do we teach prose? 1. Translate (?) 2. Read – explain – answer 3. Same treatment without bothering the type of the text 4. Question and answer (I question I answer) 5. Concentrating on meaning, vocabulary, grammar 6. Depending on the demands of the students
7. Teach the content and not the skill 
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Converting wh- questions into activities 
Type of Activities testing comprehension skill
1. Identify the intention of the author/ theme of the extract/mood of the characters
2. True or False/Correct/Incorrect
3. Logical sequence of sentences
4. Complete the Web
5. Find the proof
6. Flow chart 
7. Complete the sentences
8. Choose the appropriate sentence/s summarising the passage
9. Find out the expressions that are against the writer’s view
10. Complete the table
11. Fill in the gaps of  a summary
12. Selection of the right response/s from the multiple statements 
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Experience
Learning Process
Traditional Testing of Prose
Activity based Testing of Prose 
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Testing and the reading skill
 A1. Activity testing Complex Factual/Global understanding   (2)
  (Seen Prose : between 250 and 300 words)
 A2.  Activity testing  Inference/Interpretation       (2)
 A3. Activity testing Conclusion/Guessing        (2)
 A4. Activity testing Vocabulary          (2)
 A5. Personal Response            (2)
 A6. Contextual Grammar            (2)
               Total marks: 12 
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Mental Process and Thinking skills
Detect similarities and differences
Classifies/categorises
Organises information appropriately
Transfers knowledge/understanding and applies in new situations
Establishes cause and effect relationship
Applies reasoning and draws inferences 
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Mental Process and Thinking skills
 Communicates knowledge/understanding through different media/format
 Imagines/ fantasizes/designs/predicts based on received information (Creative thinking)
 Analyses the issues/situation
 Puts forward arguments for or against an issue
 Judges/ appraises/ evaluates merits or demerits of an idea (Critical thinking)
 Develops own solution to problems (Problem