A STUDY OF THE PERCEPTIONS OF CBSE SCHOOL TEACHERS TOWARDS CONTINUOUS AND COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION (CCE) SYSTEM IN RELATION TO CERTAIN VARIABLES

Abstract

Education aims at making children capable of becoming responsible, productive and useful members of the society. In Modern times we use CCE system for evaluation. CCE emphasizes two fold objectives, Continuity in evaluation and assessment of broad based learning and behavioural outcomes. It includes assessment in Scholastic as well as Co-Scholastic aspects of the pupil’s growth. This study is an attempt to find out CBSE teachers’ perception about the system of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), the problems they face while its execution and the suggestions they want to give in making CCE effective and fruitful on ground realities. This study provides a deep insight into the status of implementation of CCE in the schools of Central Gujarat, India. The researcher has used her, self made tool after standardization and checking its content validity. Open ended questionnaire is also used to know the problems and suggestions for the CCE system. Focus group discussion was also conducted by the researcher and the teachers shared various points pertaining to various components of CCE. The results of the study reveal that most of the teachers agree that CCE has reduced stress among the students and it is helpful in holistic development of child. But majority of teachers were against its implementation in XI and XII standard in present Indian Education System. Most of the teachers shared various loopholes pertaining to physical, psychological, pedagogical and administrative areas with reference to implementation of CCE.