CCE students do better than board examinees: Study

Students evaluated throughout the year have better learning ability as compared to those whose performance is assessed once, the Central Board of Secondary Education has found. Chetan Chauhan reports.

Updated on: Jan 26, 2012, 23:54:17 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Students evaluated throughout the year have better learning ability as compared to those whose performance is assessed once, the Central Board of Secondary Education has found.

The CBSE has introduced continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) for class X instead of board examinations about two years ago with an aim to improve overall learning ability of students, rather than making students cram textbooks just before the examination.

To evaluate its impact, the CBSE conducted a pan India survey on performance of student who opted for CCE instead of the class X board examination and those who appeared for the board examinations.

Of the total 10,61,500 students who appeared in class X board examination in 2010, about six lakh had opted for CCE. The CBSE evaluated the class XI performance of some of these students across India.

“Most of the CCE students had outperformed the board examinees in most of the streams in class XI,” said a senior CBSE official, claiming it to be a first study of its type conducted by the board. The study was done in schools were almost half of the students had opted for comprehensive evaluation instead of annual board examination. Around 64% of the students favoured CCE instead of board examination.

The CCE students have recorded good performance especially in science and commerce streams. The board also found that the overall classroom learning ability of the students who undertook CCE was better. “I think the finding is closer to truth,” said Dr VK William, principal of Mount Carmel School, Anand Niketan.

Dr DR Saini, principal of Delhi Public School RK Puram, felt that CCE improves the students learning ability without causing any stress but evaluation depends on honesty of a teacher. “The board examination was same for all but in CCE the child’s performance depends on a teacher,” he said.

The CBSE had prescribed guidelines on how to conduct CCE in schools but officials admitted lack of clarity among teachers on some of comprehensive evaluation. CBSE in an earlier survey had found 67 % of teachers were finding problems with CCE and more than half of the teachers interviewed had negative perception about the system.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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