To better the learning standards among elementary school children, Himachal Pradesh government has adopted a modified Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system under which the students will be graded on the basis of formative and summative assessments.
The process of evaluation would be "rigorous and comprehensive" to fill the learning gaps and weightage would be given to both the formative and summative assessments whilegiving the grades, the Education department website said.
Students with marks between 80 to 100 per cent would be given 'A Grade' (Outstanding), students with 65 to 79 per cent marks would fall under 'B Grade' (Very good), 'C Grade' (Good) would be given for score between 50 to 64 per cent and students with score between 35 to 49 per cent would be placed under 'D Grade' (Average), it said.
The students getting less than 35 per cent marks would be termed as 'below average' and given 'E Grade'.
Class tests spanning 60 to 75 minutes would be conducted by the teachers and students' marks would be recorded under formative assessment (FA), while the evidences of progress, assignments and other activities would be maintained as part of student portfolio.
Every student would have to do at least three assignments per subject in a term and the syllabus would be divided in two terms, the website said.
To evaluate the "scholastic part", the students would be judged on the basis of extraordinary achievements, interpersonal relationships, moral values, respect for national values, social adjustment, cleanliness and cultural aspects.
Under the summative assessment (SA), the focus would be on creative writing, picture reading , reasoning, one word answers, fill in the blanks, jumbled sentences and diagrammatic representation.
The school in-charge, principal/Headmaster/Central Head teacher would ensure that all the teachers under their charge maintain a class and subject-wise record of the each student which would be accessed by the inspection teams from time to time.
