Self evaluation

The main tenet of Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) being introduced in our school education system is to help holistic and overall growth of children. Whether they blooming as fully rounded citizens or not, we will know in some years. But, meanwhile the testing/ evaluation system will kick off soon. Teachers will evaluate students on whether they communications are getting steady, whether their social skills are improving and so on. The government is starting up a pilot for another (potentially far reaching) innovation. The pilot is for self evaluation of class V students government schools.

The evaluations (reminds us of annual self evaluations from our past corporate lives) will be filled in by the students themselves. If the student answers all questions around skill building and comprehension of a chapter with a yes, then progress is considered to have happened. If the student answers any of the questions with a no, then she / he gets some remedial teaching to cover the gap. If the self evaluation process pilot succeeds, then it will be rolled out to other classes as well.

Every year, folk from the department of education will visit the school to evaluate progress and make observations. In a way, not that different from school inspectors we assume.