What is Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)?

The term Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) is used for school based evaluation of pupils in which their assessment is done on a continuous basis throughout the year and which is also comprehensive in nature, in the sense that it is not confined to assessment in scholastic subjects but also covers co-scholastic areas such as performance in games/sports, Physical education, Creative Education, Art, Music, Dance, Drama, other cultural activities and Personal & Social qualities.

 

Advantages of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)

 

  

Teachers evaluate students in day-to-day basis and use the feedback for improvement in teaching – learning process.

Teachers can use varieties of evaluation methods over and above the written tests.

Students can be assessed in both scholastic and co-scholastic areas.

Evaluation is done throughout the year and therefore it is expected to provide more reliable evidence of students’ progress.

CCE encourages the students in forming good study habits.

The feedback provided by CCE can be effectively used in remedial teaching to slow learners.

 

 

ASPECTS OF COMPREHENSIVE AND CONTINUOUS EVALUATION

 

The ‘continuous’ aspect of CCE takes care of ‘continual’ and ‘periodicity’ aspects of evaluation.

Continual means assessment of the students in the beginning of the instruction and during the instructional process done informally using multiple techniques of evaluation.

Periodicity means assessment of performance done frequently at the end of unit /term.

The ‘comprehensive ‘ component ‘of CCE takes care of assessment of all round development of the child’s personality.

Scholastic aspects include curricular areas or subject specific areas, where as Co-Curricular Activities, Attitudes, and Values.

Assessment in Scholastic areas is done informally and formally using multiple techniques of evaluation continually and periodically. The causes of poor performance in some units are diagnosed using diagnostic tests. These are followed up with appropriate intervention followed by retesting.

Assessment in Co-Scholastic areas is done using multiple techniques on the basis of identified criteria, while assessment in Life Skills is done on the basis of indicators of Assessment and checklists.

To evaluate comprehensively the more important abilities like; affection, certain values, attitudes, interests , habits etc.

Aspect of CCE is also to foster individual abilities of the children.

To help the child to realize their potentialities and capacities.

 

Problems faced by the teachers under CCE system

 

 

 

CCE believed to help reduce the pressure on the child during/before examinations. After a discussion with few teachers we have identified some problems which teachers may face in implementation and execution of CCE system. These are:-

 

 

 

Increased volume of work: As students have to sit for multiple tests throughout the year, it has led to increase of burden on both teachers and students .collecting, checking and marking projects require extra efforts on the part of teacher as compared to written tests. Teachers feel that their work has increased tremendously with assessments having additional ‘descriptive indicators’. The increased volume of work further affects teaching effectiveness
Time Constraints: Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation requires us to spend more time evaluating individual students. While the advantages of this include a broader view of the child's progress and more interaction with the child's parents, it can put additional strain on us that negatively influences their ability to assess students. Student conferences are more frequent under this system, requiring us to add more hours to their work day
Negligent attitude of parents: Some parent specially uneducated parents do not support the CCE system. They think of CCE activities as a waste of time, money (amounts spent in making projects) and efforts. Many of them favour the traditional approach of terminal examination. Parent lack of support affects the performance of child adversely and further makes the tasks of the teacher tougher. There are many financial constraints associated with it as it may not suit the pocket of every child.
Large number of children in class: Most teachers find it difficult to execute CCE in large classes. In such cases CCE activities become time consuming and unmanageable and teachers are not able to give individual attention. Due to be over crowded classes, sometimes CCE becomes only show off.
Lack of seriousness amongst students: sometimes there is lack of seriousness amongst students regarding CCE as they are aware of the fact that they will pass without making enough efforts in academics.