"The Application of Tools and Techniques of Evaluation in Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation in Central Board of Secondary Education School."

Abstract

The aim of Education is developing the 'Whole Child' making children capable of becoming responsible, productive and useful member of a society. Knowledge, skills and attitudes are built through learning experiences and opportunities created for learners in school. The school system in India predominately focusing on the intellectual skills and the parent and society further supporting it, the psychomotor and affective domain of holistic learning have not received their due importance. It is in the classroom that learners can analyze and evaluated their experiences, learn to doubt, to question, to investigate and to think independently. The aims of education simultaneously reflect the current need and aspiration of a society as well as its lasting values and human ideals. In the present scenario it is very stressful for the parents, teacher and students only to be working on cognitive aspects without learning, the process of learning teachers professional, self esteem and promotion are geared to the scholastic mark attained by their learner, hence also very high stress levels on the teacher which are manifested in the form of teacher stress and bum out. This is tum affect our system of education on the whole. An understanding of Learners educational aims, the nature of knowledge and the nature of the schools as social organization can help us arrive at principles to guide classroom practices. Assessment, plays an important role in the teaching-learning process which provides direction to both teachers and student to proceed in a systematic manner. Assessment is all the more important because only through Assessment can a teacher judge the growth and development of a student, the changes taking place in their behaviour the progress they are making in the class and also the effectiveness of his/her own teaching in 1 class. Assessment is an important aspect of an educative process. Student learning can be improved through well-planned procedures of Assessment that are inbuilt in the teaching learning process. Many times teachers attempt to assess the progress of learning while teaching i the classroom - sometimes deliberate and at times spontaneous. Thus Assessment is considered as an integral part of teaching learning process.