Understanding the Concept of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation at school level

India boasts of 3.1 million schools (approx) and more than 34 school examination boards. Every board has its own mission and vision but all goes with aim of education to make child capable of becoming responsible, productive and useful member of society. For this our traditional examination is no longer capable to measure the all-round development of the child, so cop up with this problem continuous and comprehensive evaluation system is introduced. The continuous and comprehensive evaluation plays an important role in teaching-learning process. Continuous and comprehensive evaluation refers to a particular process of evaluation which is school based and aims at all-round development of students. This process includes continuity of testing with reasonable intervals and covering different aspects of curricular and co-curricular areas so as to help the students.