“For outcomes based learning and competency based education, Bloom’s taxonomy based on thinking skills or levels of cognitive functions of mind has been used the world over to link textual material to thinking skills, three stage interaction between the learner and learning resources, and criterion referenced formative evaluation as quality control of education,” says Jaipur based educator-researcher whose work has been cited in book “Psychology in India: Volume I” authored by Girishwar Misra [1] in 2009.
In Mishra's book. the work done at Lok Jumbish (LJ) during 1990s on creating Minimum Levels of Learning (MLL) based textbooks has been mentioned which underlines the management the implementation of curriculum through recurrent training, monthly review of the students' progress and back-up support to teachers at the cluster level.
The LJ-textbooks had the lesson wise competency statements included which were to be attained by all students supported by remedial teaching so as to fulfil of aim of “Universal Achievement” besides the systemic aims of Universal Enrolment and Universal Retention of children in the primary classes.
In the reference section, Kishore's paper published in Education Review Journal [2] has been listed that describes the development and management of the competency based curriculum in Lok Jumbish Project in Rajasthan
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