The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will shortly implement the grading system in classes six, seven and eight.
The board had implemented the Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation system across schools in the ninth and tenth grades in October. The new system was designed to de-stress education.
The CBSE has been actively wooing stakeholders to make the system succeed. After launching a dedicated webpage for the CCE system, the board officials introduced an “Interact with the Chairman” link, where doubts, clarifications and concerns parents, experts and educators have could be answered by its chairman, Vineet Joshi.
To a query if CCE will be limited to the ninth and tenth grade alone, the chairman responded, “In all the classes up to secondary stage. The detailed guidelines for classes VI-VIII will be made available to all the schools shortly.”
Questions, ranging from the manner in which internal assessments are to be done to the fairness of evaluators have been tackled by the board officials. In a bid to ensure transparency in internal evaluation, the board assures parents that the marking of answer sheets will be done according to fixed guidelines.
The official reply stated, “The answer sheets will be given back to students, who can always approach the principal in case of any doubts . Assessment in co-scholastic areas will be done by a team of teachers instead of a single teacher.”
Asked whether attrition of teachers could pose a challenge to the success of internal evaluation, the board answered, “Directions will also be issued to schools to alleviate such a situation.”
Stating that the new system will not lower the standards of education, the board said,
“The curriculum at secondary stage has been re-organised but certainly not
diluted. The pattern and standard of question papers will be decided by the board.
The role of a school is different from a coaching centre...the scheme looks at holistic development.”
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