A four-day long Parent-Orientation Programme on continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE), problem solving assessment(PSA), assessment in speaking and listening skills and open text based assessment (OTBA) for students of X and IX started from July 1 at DAV Public School, Hazaribagh.
In his inaugural speech, Principal Ashok Kumar said that CBSE has brought sweep changes in its CCE System. PSA, OTBA for Class IX and assessment in speaking and listening skills for Class IX and X are really very good initiatives of CBSE to develop students’ essential creative, analytical and thinking skills. The objectives behind these steps are to assess students’ abilities to analyze the given life situations, to comprehend and interpret written text under OTBA.
Ashwini Kumar I/C CCE said that since, there is no specific syllabus for this PSA, OTBA and ASl, there is no separate period in the school routine. Talking on types of questions in PSA he told the parents and students present that there would be 60 multiple choice questions. There would be three types of questions based on qualitative reasoning (Maths and Science), quantitative reasoning (Humanities, Arts and Social Science) and language conventions.
In his address to the parents and students, Dhiraj Kumar Gupta, I/C Academic, said that the students must be regular in class.
Under the CCE System, all activities and examinations are important, whether it is related with scholastic or co-scholastic area.
He also told that the students’ score in PSA will be counted towards Formative Assessment-4 which is 10% of total assessments for class IX students.