A section of teachers in the State have expressed displeasure with the Lesson Based Assessment (LBA) implemented by the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) alleging that the department is creating ‘unnecessary pressure.’
According to LBA, teachers have to update the lesson plan, activities, unit test of each lesson and the marks obtained by each student in the Student Achievement Tracking System (SATS). Then, supplementary teaching has to be given to the student who is lagging behind in learning, and re-tests have to be conducted. However, due to server and other problems, updating the details of each lesson and each student in SATS has become a challenge for teachers.
The DSEL implemented LBA in all government, aided, and unaided schools in the State from the academic year 2025-26 with an aim to improve student learning and confirm the child’s learning after each lesson, and reduce the examination stress of students. LBA is mandatory for classes 4 to 10 in Kannada medium and classes 1 to 10 in bilingual classes.
The main objective is to reducing reliance on tests to identify children’s progress and increasing learning capacity, allow for the achievement of specified learning outcomes through continuous analysis, motivate students at different learning levels and inclusive assessment, increase the assessment capacity of teachers, continuously monitor student learning, bring student learning to the attention of parents at each level, and the lesson-based assessment framework with continuous and comprehensive assessment (CCE) integrated with the daily classroom learning process from traditional test-centered assessment.
