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    Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation in Elementary Schools of Punjab: An Evaluative Study
    (Central University of Punjab, 2019) Singh, Narinder; Pany, Sesadeba
    The purpose of the research was to study the awareness, practice and problems related to CCE with respect to the rural and urban upper primary school teachers and administrators. It also aimed to investigate the practice and problems related to CCE as faced by the rural and urban upper primary school students. In addition to it, the training needs of the teachers were also explored and attempt was made to obtain information about the status of upper primary schools of Punjab in order to evaluate the status of CCE. Considering the quantitative results on awareness component, it was revealed that there are more number of rural teachers (83%) and administrators (74%) who are aware about CCE in comparison to their urban counterparts. These results are also supported by the qualitative results of the study. In the context of practice of CCE in upper primary schools of Punjab, it was found that majority of the upper primary school teachers (74%) and administrators (85%) are practicing CCE in an effective manner by regularly assessing the co-scholastic aspects and maintaining records of the students etc. Both the rural school teachers (83%) and administrators (88%) are practicing CCE in a better way in comparison to their urban counterparts which are further supported by the qualitative results. Majority of the rural (68%) and urban (66%) upper primary school students have reported that CCE is implemented effectively in their schools in terms of regularity in evaluation, framing variety of questions for evaluation, organization of co-curricular activities etc. More number of rural students (68%) have reported the better practice of CCE in their schools as compared to their urban counterparts (66%).The findings also revealed that the upper primary school teachers face problems related to CCE like hindrance in academic work of students due to a lot of co-scholastic activities, difficulty in recording the behavior of students on daily basis etc. It was also found that there are more number of urban school teachers (85%) who are facing problems as compared to the rural ones (79%) while implementing CCE in their schools. The administrators are facing problems like teachers’ complaints of increasing workload, incompetency of teachers in handling a lot of work under CCE, lack of parents’ support etc. There was minor difference in the quantitative and qualitative results. Through qualitative data, it was revealed that the urban and rural administrators face problems related to CCE to an equal extent. The upper primary school students also face problems related to CCE like overburden and boredom due to frequent testing, excessive assignments and project work, inadequate facilities for co-scholastic activities etc. Considering the locale wise comparison of the problems related to CCE faced by upper primary school students, it has been revealed that more number of urban school students (56%) face problems related to CCE in comparison to their rural counterparts (54%). The urban and rural upper primary school teachers of Punjab require training for understanding different techniques of evaluating co-scholastic aspects under CCE and for conducting and evaluating co-scholastic activities. From the responses of teachers to the questionnaire, it was revealed that urban school teachers feel the need of training for giving feedback to parents and rural school teachers need training for organizing subject specific activities and framing variety of questions for evaluation purpose. It was also found that there are more rural school teachers (45%) who need training on different aspects of CCE in comparison to the urban school teachers (35%). Further it was reported that there are some loopholes like inadequate material resources, less organization of activities like NSS/NCC, swimming etc., use of only tests and observation technique for evaluating the students and less organization of parent-teacher meetings. As a whole it can be said that urban schools are in more advantageous position in comparison to its rural counterparts in terms of material resources, evaluation, record maintenance and activities organized in the school.
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    Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation: A Paradigm Shift in Evaluation
    (Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 2016) Singh, Narinder; Pany, Sesadeba
    Evaluation is an integral part of the teaching-learning process and has undergone substantial changes over the years.. The teaching –learning process seems to be directionless without a relatively stable and vibrant system of evaluation. The purpose of evaluation should not be only to grade the students as per their level of attainment rather it is expected to focus on the reasons of failure and as a whole a comprehensive idea about the performance of the child in multiple areas. As such evaluation need be continuous and comprehensive covering both the scholastic as well as the non-scholastic aspects of students’ achievement. The present article comprehensively discusses about the different aspects of continuous and comprehensive evaluation(CCE) and its advantages over the traditional mode of evaluation.