Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation: Opportunities and Challenges

Evaluation plays an important role in the teaching learning process. It provides direction to both teachers and students to proceed in a systematic manner. Continuous & comprehensive evaluation is a particular process of evaluation, which is school based and aims at all round development of the students. It includes continuity of testing with reasonable intervals and covering different aspect of curricular and co-curricular areas so as to help the student. Continuous means regular assessments, frequency of unit testing, analysis of learning gaps, applying corrective measures, retesting and giving feedback to teachers and students for their self evaluation etc. Comprehensive on the other hand attempts to cover both the scholastic and the co-scholastic aspects of a student’s growth and development with both these aspects of the evaluation process being assessed through Formative and Summative Assessments. Comprehensive and continuous evaluation gives a more accurate and immediate feedback to the teacher and the students about the effectiveness of the teaching learning process. It is possible to assess the various aspects of what the students needs to live a good life with the zeal and systematical planning of teacher, only then we can expect good quality outcome as per the expectations of the country to education. Teachers are capable of executing CCE in an effective manner if adequate training, guidance, financial support, teaching materials and infrastructure are provided to them. Role of continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) which is considered as very important when our aim is to improve learner’s quality not only in the school subjects but also in their personal and social aspects(Rao 2006). The various studies conducted on CCE is the source for the paper This paper highlights the concept of CCE, teachers perception about the scheme of continuous and comprehensive evaluation, the problems they face while its execution and the suggestions in making CCE effective and fruitful on ground realities in challenging scenario of evaluation practices in Indian schools .