CONTINUOUS & COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT

» Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) refers to a system of school-based evaluation of students that covers all aspects of students development.
» The scheme is a curricular initiative, attempting to shift emphasis from testing to holistic learning.
» Continual means assessment of students in the beginning of instructions (placement evaluation) and assessment during the instructional process (formative evaluation) done informally using multiple techniques of evaluation.
» Periodicity means assessment of performance done frequently at the end of unit/term (summative)The ’comprehensive’ component of CCE takes care of assessment of all round development of thechild’s personality. It includes assessment in Scholastic as well as Co-Scholastic aspects of the pupil’s growth.
» Scholastic aspects include curricular areas or subject specific areas, whereas co-scholastic aspects include life skills, co-curricular activiies, attitudes, and values.
» The scheme of CCE has been adopted from Class I onwards. In this scheme the entire curriculum for each has been divided into two terms. First Term is from April-September & Second Term is from October-March. In each term two Formative Assessments and one Summative Assessment is done. Assessment is indicated in Grades and Percentile Rank.