Comprehensive Evaluation

Continuous And Comprehensive Evaluation CCE Session: 2014 - 2015 Don Bosco Senior Secondary School, Nerul, Navi Mumbai

Why Assess the Students ? Students must be assessed to help: • Them know their strengths and weaknesses. • The teachers in carrying out remedial work with • the students.

What is Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation? • Continuous and Comprehensive evaluation refers to a system of school based assessment that covers all aspects of a student’s development . • It emphasizes two fold objectives. • Continuity in evaluation and assessment of broad based learning. • Behavioral outcomes..

Comprehensive • Includes a variety of tools and techniques for assessment of the learners. • Scholastic : Subject specific areas • Co-Scholastic :i) Life skills • ii) Attitudes and Values • iii) Co-scholastic Activities

Areas of Assessment Scholastic & Co - Scholastic • PART 2 • Co-Scholastic Areas • 2A - Life Skills • 2B - Work education • 2C - Visual & Performing arts • 2D - Attitudes & values • PART 3 • Co - Scholastic • Activities • 3A - Literary, Creative, Scientific skills etc. • 3B - Health & • Physical Education • PART 1 • Scholastic Areas • Formative • Assessments • Summative • Assessment

Areas of Assessment Scholastic

Formative Assessments (FA) = FA1+FA2+FA3+FA4 = 40% Summative Assessments (SA)= SA1+SA2=60%

Grading Scale Scholastic Minimum qualifying grade in Scholastic Domain is D.

Steps of Assessment Compilation Formative Assessments: Marks for different activities under formative assessment are compiled. For each formative assessment marks are given out of 10. Each Formative Assessment as 10% is then added to the result sheet.

Steps of Assessment Compilation • Summative Assessments: • Paper pen test is conducted. • Each Summative Assessment as 30% is then carried to the result sheet. Overall Result: Marks of all the four FAs and two SAs are added to make the result sheet. Up scaling is done on the basis of co-scholastic marks as per CBSE rules.

PSA - Problem Solving Assessment • It is mandatory for all students of Class IX and Class XI to • appear in Problem Solving Assessment (PSA).The paper • comes from CBSE Board. • There is no specific syllabus for ‘Problem Solving • Assessment’. • It assesses the Life Skills related to the following areas: • Quantitative Reasoning • Qualitative Reasoning • Language Conventions

PSA - Problem Solving Assessment • The Problem Solving Assessment iscounted towards FA - 4 which is 10% of total assessments of Class IX. • This assessment is also carried forward towards the FA - 4 in Class X. • This score is reflected in one Language (English or Hindi), Mathematics, Science and Social Science. The same score is reflected in FA - 4 for class IX and Class X.

PSA - Problem Solving Assessment • The students will have the option to improve their PSA score in Class X, as they can sit for the test with Class IX students. • The best scores will be reflected in the final certificate in case of those applying for improvement.

PSA - Problem Solving Assessment • The Life Skills are assessed within the following domains: • Qualitative: which includes the reasoning seen in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. • Quantitative: which includes the kinds of reasoning found in Mathematics and Science. • Language Conventions: which includes different aspects of written communication (e.g. grammar, vocabulary etc.)

PSA - Problem Solving Assessment • The questions incorporate aspects such as Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Communication. • The questions in ‘Problem Solving Assessment’ are designed in such a way so as to improve the generic and higher order thinking skills. This also results in improving scores within the core school subjects. • PSA Exam is usually conducted in the month of January.

PSA - Problem Solving Assessment There are 60 questions of MCQ and distribution is as follows:

ASL Assessment of Speaking and Listening Skills http://www.cbseacademic.in/aslcorner.html • Why is assessment of listening and speaking skills important? • Good communication skills improve and raise the self-esteem of a student. • CBSE essentially desires that the students acquire proficiency in it by the time they leave the portals of the school.

Assessment of Speaking and Listening Skills • What do you mean by listening and speaking skills? • Speaking skills is effective spoken communication that is • being able to express your ideas and views clearly, • confidently and concisely in speech, tailoring your content • and style to the audience and promoting free-flowing • communication. • Listening skills are ways to help you listen to • something more effectively and be able to comprehend • the message being communicated.

Assessment of Speaking and Listening Skills • When will testing of speaking and listening skills be conducted? • It has to be a continuous process as a classroom activity. But these skills will be tested both in SA I and SA II. • The best of two grades (scored in SA I and SA II) will be reflected against ASL Column In the Final Report Card.

OTBA Open Text Book Assessment • The Central Board of Secondary Education recommends that multiple modes of assessment need to be provided to cater to the varied abilities of individual strengths of learners. • Therefore, an element of Open Text-based Assessment for Classes IX and XI has been introduced in March, 2014 Examination. • These are meant to incorporate analytical and theoretical skills, thus moving away from memorization.

Open Text Based Assessment (OTBA) for Class IX • It is applicable to all the main subjects….. • (ENGLISH, HINDI, MATH,SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE) • This is a part of Summative Assessment II. • A textual material may be in the form of an article, a case study, a diagram, a concept/ mind map, a picture or a cartoon, problem/situation based on the concepts taught to the students during second term.

Open Text Based Assessment (OTBA) for Class IX • It is to the extent of 15-20 percent in all the main subjects and also include the Value Based Questions. • The textual material is related to chosen concepts taken from the syllabi. • The Open Text Based Assessment (OTBA) has questions of higher order thinking skills and some of which are subjective, creative and open ended. • The textual material is supplied earlier and uploaded on cbseacademics.nic.in

Open Text based Assessment (OTBA) • Assessment of Text Material / Case-Studies • Depending on the text material/ case study supplied to students, the answers will be assessed on a set of assessment rubrics showing the extent of which students were able to do the following: • Understand and apply the concepts to the situational • problems. • (ii) Suggest and bring out appropriate solutions to the • problem/situation. • (iii) Come up with innovative opinions/suggestions. • (iv) Deep analysis based on a wide range of perspectives.

FORMAT OF REPORT CARD Page 1

FORMAT OF REPORT CARD Page 2

Performance Profile • The Board has amended its examination Bye-Laws to make • it mandatory for students to appear in both the Summative • Assessments and score a minimum of 25% marks in • aggregate i.e., (SA I + SA II) in these assessments w. e. f. • 2013-14. • The Board has also initiated Assessment of Speaking and • Listening Skills (ASL) and Open Text Based Assessments • (OTBA) from the academic session 2013-14 in class IX and • class XI to focus on communicative aspects of language • learning and problems based on higher order reasoning • skills.

Performance Profile • In the light of above initiatives, the Performance Profile for • class IX for this year is slightly changed. • The following points are highlighted in this regard: 1. There is no change in the criteria for working out the overall result i.e., marks obtained in both the SAs will be added and then converted into respective grades as per the existing scheme. 2. The grades ‘E1@’ or ‘E2@’ will indicate that candidate has obtained less than 25% mandatory marks in Summative Assessments.

Performance Profile 3. The grade scored in the Assessment of Speaking and Listening Skills (ASL) in English will be a part of Summative Assessments I and II (70+20) and will be reflected as an aggregate grade in the Performance Profile. 4. As Open Text Based Assessment (OTBA) will be a part of the Summative Assessment II question paper, there will be no need for calculating grades in the subjects containing OTBA separately.

Performance Profile • 5. The total marks of the question papers for the subjects • having OTBA (English, Hindi, Mathematics, Science and • Social Science) in the Summative Assessment II will be 100 • and the timing will be 3-3½ hours. • The overall marks obtained in these subjects will be multiplied by 0.3 to make it 30% which is the weightage for Summative Assessments II. • For the subjects which do not have OTBA element, the question paper will be of 90 marks and the process for computing 30% weightage will remain the same as followed in the previous year i.e., division by 3 to make it 30%.

Performance Profile 6. The instructions regarding obtaining 25% mandatory marks in the Summative Assessments (both the SA I and SA II taken together), ASL, OTBA and skill based vocational subjects under National Vocational Education Qualification Framework (NVEQF) have been added in the Scheme of Studies. 7. If mandatory 25% marks have not been obtained in the Summative Assessments in a subject, Grade E1 or E2 will not be upgraded.

Co – Scholastic Areas Co-Scholastic areas are assessed by: • Planning Activities. • Writing Anecdotal Records for each Student. • Giving marks to specific indicators and calculating the total marks. • Total Marks are converted into grades. • Compilation of indicators according to the grade.

AREAS OF ASSESSMENT Co-Scholastic

GRADING SCALE Co-Scholastic Minimum qualifying grade in Co-Scholastic Domain is D.

INDICATORS 2A-Life Skills-Thinking Skills

INDICATORS 2A-Life Skills-Social Skills

INDICATORS 2A-Life Skills-Emotional Skills

INDICATORS 2B - Work Education

INDICATORS 2C - Visual Arts

INDICATORS 2C - PERFORMING ARTS

INDICATORS 2D - Attitudes Towards Teachers

INDICATORS 2D - Attitudes Towards School-mates

INDICATORS 2D - Attitudes Towards School Programmes & Environment

INDICATORS 2D - Value Systems

INDICATORS 3A- Literary & Creative Skills

Comprehensive Evaluation