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BATTING SOLIDLY FOR CCE
* The Goa govt recommends making CCE an effective tool which ensures activity-based joyful learning
* Recommendation of rationalising number of children permitted in classroom to make Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation effective
* CCE provides a good framework to facilitate holistic assessment of every child, says the State govt
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NDP ON A STICKY WICKET
* State govt is of the opinion that ‘No Detention Policy’ has not improved learning outcomes in students
* The policy has made teachers, children and parents complacent on child's performance, says the govt
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PANAJI: The Government of Goa has come out strongly in support of the Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) with regard to the education system in schools, even as it stated that the ‘No Detention Policy’ has not resulted in improvement of learning outcomes in students.
The State has already forwarded its recommendations for New Education Policy 2016, which is likely to be unveiled by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, shortly.
In a reply to theme IV for consultation on the New Education Policy which speaks about school reformation systems, the State has strongly batted for CCE. It has, however, recommended that CCE should be made an effective tool ensuring activity based and child-centred joyful learning for attaining the desired learning outcomes.
Moreover, it has also been recommended that the number of children permitted in classroom should be rationalised in order to make CCE effective.
The State presently follows CCE providing for multiple avenues of child evaluation “ namely academic, non-academic, scholastic and co-scholastic wherein attempt is made to test the child in multiple domains of learning including assessment of his/her personal development in terms of attitude, aptitude and so on. The scheme also provides specific learning outcomes and guidelines for evaluation. Care is also taken to give the child opportunities to fill gaps in learning by administering re-tests, remedial actions after each attempt of improvement activity.
Furthermore, in a reply to whether the implementation of ‘No Detention Policy’ has improved learning outcomes of students, the State has pointed out that ‘No Detention Policy’ has not resulted in improvement of learning outcomes of the students in any way.
It has also been stated that as because of ‘No Detention Policy’, the child is bound to get promoted to the next level, it has made everyone, ie teachers, children and parents complacent on improvement in the performance of the child.
“Unfortunately, CCE is wrongly identified with ‘no detention’ whereas it should have been taken in the right spirit as CCE is a tool to ensure that every child acquires the age appropriate learning skills in reading, writing and numeracy,” stated the recommendation.
In a reply to how the examination system can be strengthened so that the students are assessed on an ongoing basis for their holistic development, the State has said that CCE provides a good framework to facilitate holistic assessment of every child except that it needs to be made more focused by reframing the quantum of information to be captured which affects the quality of teaching by reducing the net time available for classroom teaching. The teachers however find themselves constrained to spare time for remediation with each child after diagnosing its learning deficiencies as the teacher is under pressure to cover the syllabus, stated the reply.
“The content load therefore needs to be limited. It is felt that the prevailing examination system is strong enough and adequate and does not pose any threat or fear to the learner. What is needed is to make use of CCE framework as an effective diagnostic tool so that the learning deficiencies are addressed immediately by remedial activities to ensure that each child acquires requisite performance level before it takes re-test. It is felt that condition of minimum attendance to become eligible to pass under No Detention Policy also needs to be considered,” stated the recommendation.
