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Kota introduces peer group evaluation for coaching students

The Kota district administration has directed all coaching institutes to introduce Peer Group Evaluation (PGE) scheme in a bid to de-stress students in coaching centers.
Kota introduces peer group evaluation for coaching students
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JAIPUR: The Kota district administration has directed all coaching institutes to introduce Peer Group Evaluation (PGE) scheme in a bid to de-stress students in coaching centers.
Under the scheme every batch in coaching centers will be divided into groups of 15-20 students picked randomly. The groups will have to engage in a wide array of activities to help them get familiarizes with each other.
The move is intended to give children an enabling platform to vent their feelings, expressions and emotions.
Kota has seen 15 suicides by students of medical and engineering coaching institutes, two short of last year figure of 17 suicides.
"Even after introducing various measures it was observed that many students, who were distressed, didn't take help of any of the services available on their own to come out of their disorder. On the other hand, teachers too have limited time to observe a student for accessing any variation in the behaviour," explained Ravi Kumar Surpur, collector of Kota.
"Through this exercise students will get to know each other well enough to notice sudden behavioural variations in their friends. The exercise would certainly help identify children in distress who are in need of help and attention," he said.
The move has been designed using psychological and sociological tools to create an ecosystem for expanding the social circle of students and for allowing them monitor each other. Surpur has clarified that this is not a tool to rate academic performance or IQ of the child in any manner but is aimed at studying his behavioural pattern. He has ordered coaching institutes to hold such meetings every 10-15 days to achieve the desirable results.

It is often seen that students who comes to Kota for coaching rarely socialise with any one else apart than his roommate or with those students who share the same table with them in the classrooms. This is reason that students under depressions or showing those suicidal tendencies go unnoticed.
"Such interactions would make it easy for students to talk about chronic absenteeism from class, parental hyper expectation, lack of interest, poor concentration, poor attention, erratic sleep habits, mobile phone indulgence, low self esteem, performance related emotions, negative tendencies. It will also give an opportunity to analyse his problems by a teacher for starting a corrective action," said Surpur.
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