Time and again in this era of changing and transitioning the world it becomes necessary to incorporate educational institutions with the solutions to fulfill the needs of transformation. One among such actively participating education boards of India is the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
CBSE or the Central Board of Secondary Education in the year 2011 had brought some major changes to the pattern of evaluation in the schools by implementing CCE or Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation scheme. This school-based system of evaluation aimed to cover all aspects of a student’s development and progress. Under this scheme, the marking scheme changed from percentage base to grading base till class 10th and class 10th boards became optional that can be opted as per the candidates’ wish.
The CCE guidelines described ‘continuous’ in the context of regular assessments, frequency of unit tests, analysis of learning gaps, applying corrective measures, retesting, and giving feedback to teachers and students for their self-evaluation. ‘Comprehensive,’ on the other hand, attempted to cover both the scholastic and co-scholastic aspects of a student’s growth and development. Both these aspects of the evaluation processes were assessed through formative and summative assessments from Class VI to Class X.
Advantages of CCE scheme-
* Encouraged the education of students by including new teaching techniques and methods.
* Explores the learning needs as well as the potential of students.
* Keeps track of the continuous learning progress of students on smaller content portions on a regular basis and maintains proper sync between students, teachers, and parents.
* Recognizes as well as deals with the certain needs of those students who are not academically sound.
* Encourages students to participate in extra-curricular activities instead of focusing largely on academics.
* Leads to overall student development in various aspects.
* Encourages additional life skills, emotional skills, and thinking abilities.
Some disadvantages as looked by people-
* The grading system is its biggest flaw because as the students scoring 90 and 99 marks are both kept in Grade A+, there is no segregation.
* A lot of people argue that CCE makes the students take their boards casually on lighter terms than expected.
* Students are forced to study versatile the year, which in a way, is like giving no rest to them. Every activity is monitored constantly.
* The internal exam papers are evaluated by schoolteachers, which means that there is a huge possibility of favoritism.
* Endless projects and students’ dependency on the Internet are hampering their creativity in a way by limiting their own sense of imagination.
However then again in the year 2017 for sessions 2017-18, new guidelines regarding the mandatory class 10th boards were laid which altered the CCE structure of class 10th examinations. According to the new guidelines, it was mandated to conduct a final board exam for class 10th students over the previous structure of 2 Summative Assessments and 4 Formative Assessments.
And then during this unprecedented time of Covid-19, the CBSE advised all the schools to transform the standard “Schooling only at Schools” to “School Home Collaboration for Learning. For which the board felicitated the schools and its children with readily available online content including study materials, access to educational videos through recordings and YouTube channels to make sure that the education of students won’t have to suffer the impact.