Components of comprehensive Evaluation programme
Introduction
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Continuous and comprehensive
Evaluation refers to a system of school based evaluation of the learner that
covers all aspects of the learner development. It means regular assessment of
every student. It is more a process than an event. The Government has decided
to introduce Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation in all its schools at the
Secondary level, commencing with Standard IX, from the academic year 2013-2014.
The scheme will then be carried forward to
Standard X in
the academic year 2014-15.
What is CCE?
CCE refers
Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation, a system of school based assessment
that covers all the aspects of a student’s development. It was designed to
reduce the student stress related to board exams, and to introduce a uniform
and comprehensive pattern For student evaluation across the country.
Objectives of CCE:
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Encourage development of cognitive skills and de-emphasize rote learning
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Make the entire education process a student-centric activity
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Help develop cognitive, psychomotor and interpersonal skills
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Make holistic evaluation an integral part of entire education process
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Improve student's accomplishments through regular diagnostics and remedial
instructions
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Use evaluation to control quality and maintain desired performance
➢ Take decisions about the learner, learning process and
learning environment by determining social utility, desirability
&effectiveness of the programme
Component of Evaluation
programs
Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation considers both the scholastic and co-scholastic aspects.
Scholastic assessment:
Scholastic aspects include curricular areas or
subject-specific areas. These areas focus on oral and written class tests,
cycle tests, activity tests, and daily class performances of all subjects in
order to improve writing and speaking skills.
Scholastic
assessment should be both Formative and Summative.
Formative Assessment:
Formative
assessment consists of diagnostic testing, which is the extent of formal and
informal assessment procedures conducted by teachers during the learning
process in order to alter teaching and learning activities to improve student
achievement. It typically involves qualitative feedback for both student and
teacher that is the basis of the details of content and performance. It is
commonly compared with summative assessment, which attempts to monitor
educational outcomes, often for purposes of external responsibility.
Features of Formative
Assessment:
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It makes provision for effective feedback.
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It provides a plan for the active involvement of
students in their own learning
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It helps the student to support their peers’
group and vice-versa.
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It helps in integrating diverse learning styles
to decide how and what to teach.
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Co-scholastic aspects include Life Skills,
Co-Curricular Activities, Attitudes, and Values.
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It provides the student with a chance to improve
their scores after they get feedback.
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It helps in the detection and correction of the
assessment process.
Summative Assessment:
Summative
assessment is an assessment of students where the focus is on the consequences
of a program. The goal of summative assessment is to assess student learning at
the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against a norm.
Features of Summative assessment:
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It can be done at the end of a unit or semester
to display the sum of what they learn or whatnot.
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This is the contrasts with formative assessment,
which summarizes the participants' development at a particular time.
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It is a conventional way of assessing students'
work.
2. Co-scholastic assessment:
Co-Scholastic
Areas of Assessment: The areas of Co-scholastic assessment focus on increasing
the skills of a student in general knowledge, environmental education, physical
education, art, music and dance, and computers. These are evaluated through
quizzes, competitions, and activities.
School-based continuous and comprehensive
evaluation system helps a learner in the following ways:
It reduces stress on children.
It makes evaluation comprehensive and regular.
It provides a tool for the detection and
correction of action.
It provides space for the teacher for creative
teaching.
It produces learners with greater skills.
Characteristics of School-Based CCE:
School-based CCE has the following
characteristics:
It is comprehensive, broader, and continuous
than the traditional system.
It aims primarily to help learners for orderly
learning and development.
It takes care of the needs of the learner as
responsible citizens of the future.
It is more translucent, advanced, and provides
more scope for interconnection among learners, teachers, and parents.
Conclusion:
The Innovations
would not turn to be effective and successful until unless our teachers are not
willing whole- heartedly to implement such evaluation system in right manner
and spirit. The need is to bring a favourable change in teacher's attitude
towards this scheme in means of training, orientation, incentives, and other
alike. Parents also co-operate with students to get benefits from CCE. The
curriculum developers also develop the curriculum keeping CCE strategy. The
administrators also guide teachers about usage of CCE technique for improvement
of teaching- learning process. If we follow the steps of CCE in proper way the
future students will surely become the master of the concepts.