Teachers, school heads know little about CCE

CCE is a system of school-based evaluation of students that covers all aspects of students’ overall development, in which the continuous aspect of CCE stresses on the continual and periodicity of evaluation.

To study the awareness of teachers, school heads and parents about CEE, authorities at the SCERT research cell conducted a study across Chennai schools. Samples were drawn from all the 10 zones of Chennai district by adopting the stratified random sampling technique, in which 167 teachers, 67 schoolheads and 78 parents were chosen to collect the data.

The answers to the questionnaire revealed that teachers and school heads have only moderate level of awareness on CCE. However, the findings also said that teachers’ classroom practices related to CCE are conducive for learning.

Teachers strongly agreed that their reporting about the students’ performance to the parents was helpful, even though they were not able to write descriptive and comprehensive feedback about their students.

The findings also showed that there was a significant relationship between the teachers and school-heads, but not between the teachers and parents. SCERT have also undertaken another study on the implementation of CCE, especially for Class eight students across the State, to compare the performance of students in Summative Assessment (SA) and Proficiency Test (PT).

Accordingly, the proficiency test question papers were developed separately for English and Mathematics for a maximum of 30 marks. The marks and corresponding grades obtained by each student in the school formed the base of Formative Assessment (FA) and SA.

In both the tests, girls have registered better performance than the boys. In the SA, rural students performed better than urban students while in PT, urban students performed better.

Except the PT in Mathematics, students of higher secondary schools have performed better than those in middle schools, the survey showed.