What is CCE?

What is CCE?
Is it yet another method of evaluation?

By the words CCE, we tend to mean Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation. It is continuous as it never ends and on and on it goes in a cyclic manner. A student is tested for his skills and an assessment of his standing and learning abilities is made through a number of techniques and tools of assessment.

The assessment comes handy as it tries to plug the gap-holes and gives a better view of the students’ performance. It is objective oriented and unbiased. It is based on formative and summative assessment and it covers almost all the areas like scholastic and co-scholastic and a detailed report is prepared which serves as a permanent record called a CCE report.

Through CCE, CBSE intends to address the need of 21^st Century Skills which, of late, have become invariably significant to match the Indian Schools and the system of education with that of the developed countries. There is a marked shift of emphasis from content to skills. The Central Board of Secondary Education wants our schools and teachers to bring a marked change in the teaching and pedagogy so that the future human resource is ready to face the new changes in the quality of work environment and armed with all the necessary skills. They will no more be in line with the unemployable educated youth. Instead the students under new system will be skilled to form the employable educated human resource.

By skills we mean the performance related abilities and inculcating them as part of the behavior pattern where they would be fixed to serve as soft skills they would make them information seekers to seek and be comfortable with the information pouring in as they would be skilled to analyze and evaluate the data while solving the problems and taking effective decisions.

This is the most positive aspect of CCE and all the teachers should study the hidden aims and objectives behind this pattern of evaluation and learn to use it more effectively than before. They should refrain from making fake entries and try to give a true picture or profile of the student.