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Neither teacher and pupils nor the parents and education planners
know where they are and where they ought to be as there's a lack
of well defined criteria for measuring real progress of the student in
terms of learning. Typical measures such as attendance records and
completion of syllabus can not substitute measures of actual
attainment of learning.
NCERT proposed Minimum levels of learning (MLL's) in 1978 in connection with
UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) assisted projects on
'primary education curriculum renewal' and 'developmental activities in community
education and participation.
The primary education curriculum renewal project was evaluated in 1984.
Using this evaluation and following the National policy on education 1986, NCERT
prepared another document titled “Minimum levels of learning at primary stage”.
Dept of Education, MHRD formed a committee in Jan.1990 with following goals,
1. Draw up MLL's for class III and V.
2. Recommend a procedure for comprehensive learner evaluation and assessment.
3. Suggest ways to improve teaching in non-cognitive areas of learning.
Irrespective of caste, creed, location or sex, all children must be given access to
education of a comparable standard.
The MLL strategy for improving the quality of elementary education is an attempt to
combine quality with equity.
It lays down learning outcomes in the form of competencies or levels of learning for
each stage of elementary education.
Implications of Minimum Levels of Learning
(MLL):
Major drawbacks of the existing curriculum are,
1. Over load of contents of facts and
information which is of little relevance to
the life and needs of majority of students.
2. Need to complete the syllabus results in
ignorance of the weak and strugglers.
Implications of Minimum Levels of Learning (MLL):
Lightening the curriculum of its textual load and also the
burden of memorizing unnecessary and irrelevant facts;
Leaving room for the teacher to relate textbook
information and objective
Reality into a meaningful process of understanding and
application;
Ensuring the acquisition of basic competencies and skills
to such a level where they are sustainable, and would not
easily allow for relapse into illiteracy;
Permitting mastery learning not only by the brighter
students in the class but also by almost all children
including the first generation learners.
Features of Minimum Levels ofLearning (MLL) :
Achievability
Communicability
Evaluability
Learning Continuum
Comparison with NFE(Non Formal Education)
system
Non-cognitive areas
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