Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): For ensuring successful teaching-learning systems both Norm-Reference Testing (NRT) and Criterion-Referenced Testing (CRT) procedures for interpretation of scores have to be synthesized.
Reason (R): Parents and educational administrators along with the students themselves need to know the status of accomplishment in terms of laid down criteria and relative positions of the participants vis-a-vis that of others.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct options from the options given below:
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is true but (R) is false
4. (A) is false but (R) is true