^1,2Asstt Prof. -Education RIE Bhopal India

The CCE or Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation scheme refers to a school based evaluation of students that covers all the aspects of a student’s development. It emphasizes two fold objectives of continuity in evaluation on the one hand and assessment of broad range of behavioural outcome on the other. Continuous means continuity and regularity of assessment during the whole session. Comprehensiveness means the areas of assessment which includes both scholastic and co-scholastic aspect of pupils growth helping the all round development of child. Therefore, the CCE scheme brings about a paradigm shift from examination to effective pedagogy.

Conventionally the teacher is seen as the information giver; knowledge flows only one way, from teacher to student. In a collaborative classroom (or the CCE method), emphasis is on shared knowledge and decision making. For some teachers finding time for planning collaborative instruction is a most difficult challenge. In a changed scenario, a teacher ought to maintain a number of records like child’s portfolios, anecdotal records, prepare checklists, rubrics for assessment. Practicing modes and modalities of CCE is a challenge before traditional teachers. Therefore it is absolutely essential that teachers need to be provided with orientation about the CCE scheme incorporating both the
scholastic and co-scholastic areas of learners’ growth. In order to make CCE effective there has to be collective understanding among all concern i.e. child, teacher, parent and institutions of higher education about what is being evaluated.