Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)

his content refers to a system of school–based evaluation of students that covers all aspects of students’ development. As the nomenclature also suggests, this new pattern in evaluation is not one, two, or three times a year but a continuous one. It is a developmental assessment process that emphasizes twofold objectives: continuity in evaluation and assessment of broad-based learning and behavioral outcomes on the other. 

It is a complete teaching-learning process and is spread over the entire span of the academic sessions. It means regularity of assessment, frequency of unit testing, diagnosis of learning gaps, use of corrective measures, refreshing, and feedback to the evidence to teachers and students for their self-evaluation.

The second term comprehensive scheme attempt to cover both the scholastic and the co-scholastic aspects of students’ growth and development, CCE therefore a paradigm shift in evaluation, shifting the focus from testing to holistic learning. It aims to create good citizens possessing sound health, appropriate skills, and desirable qualities besides academic excellence.

Aims of CCE

• To help develop cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills
• To lay emphasis on thought processes and de-emphasize memorization.
• To make evaluation an integral part of the teacher-learning process.
• To use evaluation for improvement of students’ achievement and teaching-learning strategies on the basis of regular diagnosis followed by remedial instruction.
• To use evaluation as a quality control device to maintain the desired standard of performance.
• To determine the social utility, desirability, or effectiveness of a program and make appropriate decisions about the learning, the process of learning, and the learning environment. 
• To make the process of teaching and learning a learner-centered activity.

Important Functions of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation

Important functions of continuous and comprehensive evaluation are as follows –

• Continuous evaluation helps in regular assessment of the extent and degree of students’ progress (ability and achievement with reference to specific scholastic and non-scholastic areas).
• Continuous evaluation serves to diagnose weaknesses and permit the teacher to ascertain an individual pupil’s strengths and weaknesses and his needs. It provides immediate feedback to the teacher, who can then decide whether a particular unit or concept needs re-teaching to the whole class or whether a few individuals are in need of remedial instruction.
• It helps the teacher to organize effective teaching strategies,
• Mainly times, because of personal reasons, family problems, or adjustment problems, the children start neglecting their studies, resulting in a sudden fall in their achievement.
• If the teacher, child, and parents do not come to know about this sudden fall in achievement and the neglect of studies by the child continues for a longer period then it will result in poor achievement and a permanent deficiency in learning for the child. The continuous evaluation helps in bringing awareness of the achievement to the child, teachers, and parents from time to time. They can look into the probable cause of the fall in achievement, if any, and may take remedial measures in time, to help the child overcome it at their own level.
• By Continuous evaluation, children can know their strengths and weaknesses. It provides the child with a realistic self-picture of how he or she studies. It can motivate children to develop good study habits, correct errors, and direct their activities toward the achievement of desired goals. It helps an individual to determine the areas of instruction in which more emphasis is required.
• Continuous and comprehensive evaluation ascertains areas of aptitude and interest. It helps in identifying changes in attitude, character, and value patterns. 
• It helps in making decisions for the future, regarding the choice of subjects, courses, and careers.
•  It provides information/reports on the progress of students in scholastic and non-scholastic areas and thus helps in predicting the future successes of the learner.