A Study of the Awareness Interest and Practices of Teachers Towards Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation

Abstract

Examinations have always been an integral part of the formal education. With change in newlinetime, the impact on education pattern could be seen and, so was felt the need of newlineexamination reforms. Continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) has emerged as a newlinevital point of educational process that focuses on to enable the teachers to get aware with newlinethe strength, weakness, interest and attitude of the learners , and thus making available newlinethe prospects for the complete development of their personality. For the success of any newlinereform or change in teaching-learning process, the teacher occupies very important place newlineand therefore, it becomes imperative to ascertain their awareness, interests and other newlineallied aspects about CCE. With the same objective, A Study of the Awareness, newlineInterest, and Practices of Teachers towards Continuous and Comprehensive newlineEvaluation was planned. To realize the objectives, descriptive survey method was newlineemployed for the research. The sample comprised of 200 TGT teachers from 10 Kendriya newlineVidyalaya and 10 Private schools from five districts of Delhi selected through random newlinesampling technique. Four researcher-made tools - Teachers Awareness Questionnaire newlinetowards Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation, Teachers Interest Inventory newlinetowards Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation, Checklist for observing the newlineformative assessment practices of English teachers and Interview schedule for identifying newlineand studying the problems faced by teachers in implementing CCE were used to collect newlinedata from the sample. The major findings of the study were newline(i) 70.0 percent of teachers newlinehave average awareness in relation to different components of CCE. The teachers have newlineexpressed their desire and willingness to get acquainted more with few components of newlineCCE which need immediate attention. newline(ii) 70.5 percent of teachers have expressed their like towards various components of CCE which has resulted into teachers possessing newlineaverages interest...