School Quality Assessment and Accreditation – UGC NET Question

SQAAF is intended to offer a holistic framework of quality indicators and processes so that schools can be assessed on learning outcomes, pedagogy, infrastructure and governance, and use the feedback for continuous improvement rather than mere ranking or punishment.

Option A:
This option reduces quality to exam marks alone, which NEP explicitly criticises as too narrow an indicator of school performance.

Option B:
This option correctly reflects SQAAF’s purpose as a comprehensive framework for assessing and improving overall school quality.

Option C:
Linking teachers’ salaries only to student marks is not the objective of SQAAF and could create perverse incentives.

Option D:
Selecting schools for closure based purely on infrastructure size ignores learning and process indicators and is not what NEP proposes for SQAAF.