Scholastic Achievement of Primary School Students in Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) with reference to their Gender, Locale and Type of Schools

Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) is the continuous check of the total growth and development of the learners. As rightly quoted by National Curriculum Frame Work (2005) CCE Evaluation is concerned with identification of learning experience and provide proper learning environment to the learners. The Right of the Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 ensures learning through activities, exploration and discovery in a child friendly approach. Apart from teaching the content, making the child free from fear, anxiety and helping the child to express their views freely are the essential duties and responsibilities of a teacher in the classroom. All these are being covered in the CCE since it involves multiple tools for evaluation which lead to holistic learning .among the learners. CCE covers Scholastic and co-Scholastic areas. Scholastic area includes formative and summative. Academic achievement means attaining the learning goals through proper learning environment. During the year 2012-13 CCE evaluation was introduced to I to VIII Std. and CCE was introduced to IX Std during the year 2013-14. There are different types of schools in different locale with gender differences in Tamilnadu State. This study aims to reaching holistic development of the students irrespective of (i) category of schools such as Govt. Aided, Welfare, Matric and Self-financed schools (ii) Locale of the School (Rural, Urban) (iii) Gender (Boys, Girls). This study also attempts to answer the following questions viz., How do learners perceive the system? What are the levels of achievement of learners? Can we say anything about the impact of different variables like Gender, locale and different types of schools towards CCE?