Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) refers to a student evaluation system, which covers all aspects of activities related to student development.
- It emphasizes two-fold objectives such as continuity of evaluation and assessment of learning outcomes in a comprehensive manner. It covers all the domains of learning i.e. cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. It treats evaluation as a developmental process.
- Evaluation in the cognitive domain is associated with the evaluation of cognitive abilities such as knowledge, understanding, application, etc.
- Evaluation in the affective domain means evaluation of attributes such as attitudes, motives, interests, and other personality traits.
- Evaluation in the psychomotor domain involves assessing learners’ skills to use their hands (e.g., in handwriting, construction, and projects).
- In CCE, student’s performance in both scholastic and co-scholastic activities is assessed.
Meaning of Continuous: The term ‘continuous’ refers to regularity in assessment. The development of a student is a continuous process. Therefore, students’ development should be assessed continuously. Evaluation has to be completely integrated with the teaching and learning process. Evaluating students on a continuous basis in a cyclic manner is one aspect of CCE. The term ‘continuous’ includes ‘Continual’ and ‘Periodicity’ aspects of evaluation.
Meaning of Comprehensive: The second term associated with CCE is ‘comprehensive’. The term ‘comprehensive’ implies that evaluation of learners’ performance is carried out in both scholastic and co-scholastic areas.
- CCE is comprehensive in nature as it takes care of the achievement of learners in various subjects from science, mathematics, languages, computer science, work education, and physical health activities as well as includes the assessment of co-scholastic abilities like attitude, values, life skills, interests, habits, etc.
- Second, CCE is comprehensive in nature in terms of tools and techniques used for the evaluation of learners. It includes various tools like observations, interviews, rating scales, checklists, document analyses, portfolios, anecdotal records, and techniques of assessment like assignments, projects, quizzes, debates, discussions, club activities, performance, experiments, etc.
- CCE is comprehensive in nature as it is used for assessing various learning outcomes like knowing, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. It is also used to evaluate learners’ progress in all three domains i.e. cognitive, affective, and psycho-motor, whereas the conventional evaluation system was limited to the cognitive domain only.
Nature of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation:
The nature of CCE is so comprehensive that it includes almost all aspects of student’s development. It integrates assessment with the teaching and learning process; emphasizing assessment of learner abilities in scholastic areas along with the co-scholastic areas.
- CCE encourages and motivates students to be positive in their attitudes.
- It emphasizes that teacher’s judgment should be made through an honest and objective appraisal without bias.
- It is a process of continuous attempts to assess whether desirable changes are taking place in students along the lines of educational objectives.
Purposes of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation:
CCE attempts to minimize fear and anxiety among our learners about examination and evaluation. CCE helps learners, parents, and teachers in the following ways:
- It reduces the dropout rate as there will be less fear and anxiety among learners related to their performance.
- In CCE, greater focus is given on learning rather than on conducting tests and examinations.
- It contributes to the holistic development of learners.
- CCE is used as an instrument of preparing learners for future life by making them physically fit, mentally alert, emotionally balanced, and socially adjusted.
- Learners get more time to develop their interests, hobbies, and personalities through CCE.
- It promotes a learner-friendly environment, thereby optimizes student learning.
- It equips students with life skills, especially creative and critical thinking skills, social skills, and coping skills which will help them to face a highly competitive environment later on.
Different CCE modes:
- Quiz,
- Group Discussion
- Classroom Teaching
- Posters and Model Making
- MCQs
- Assignments
- Lab Exercises
- Practical
- Role Plays
- Report Writing
- Semi Surprise Tests
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Bibliography
- Review of Books
- Literature Review etc.
