Action Plan for MILES (as envisaged in 1992)

 General frame of reference
 Problems,item types, & categories
 Database, basic references, & application

The following is the action plan initiated for translating the conceptualised ideas into practice towards making an improved educational planning.

General frame of reference

• Identifying the major, minor, and sub-components that constitute the concept of language and placing them in the form of a continuum as the General Frame of Reference (GFR) for Language; and developing such GFR in all the major Indian languages along with a bilingual glossary.
• Identifying the major, minor, and sub-components that constitute the concept of literature and placing them in the form of a continuum as GFR for Literature; and developing such GFR in all the major Indian languages along with a bilingual glossary.
• Identifying the major, minor, and sub-components that constitute the concept of all-round growth and placing them in the form of a continuum as GFR for personality; and developing such GFR in all the major Indian languages along with a bilingual glossary.

Problems, item types, & categories

• Outlining the problems (unseen/unknown dimensions) that are associated with all the components of language, literature, and personality, along with their operating contexts.
• Projecting them as content inputs of question-items with scores of illustrative examples.
• Listing out the available formats of item-types & their categories; tools & techniques ; methods & medi ums of their preparation; mode of administration; procedures of scoring; analysis of items and tests, for the determination of quality indices, etc.
• Deciding their appropriateness to accommodate all the testable dimensions; the strategies to be followed for assessing content mastery and persons growth.

Database, basic references, & application

• Creating a data base of item resources on each of the teachable and testable units of language & literature. Facilitating the preparation of graded syllabi and corresponding tools of assessment.
• Developing basic references on evaluation (that encompasses the disciplines of language, literature, linguistics, education, psychology, mathematics, statistics, computer studies, etc.) with equivalents in Indian languages.
• Making these developments applicable to all the seven levels of general education viz., primary, upper primary, secondary, higher secondary, graduate, postgraduate, and research.