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Educational Measurement and Evaluation

Notes assessment or grading of his/her learners. Teachers must be given opportunities to select
and review assessments so that they become involved and knowledgeable in the process.
• One of the important aspects of continuous assessment is the availability of valid and
reliable tests which could be used in all schools.
• Apart from the skills of test construction measuring cognitive aspects of learning, teachers
should also be able to measure the learners’ affective attributes such as attitudes, motives,
interests, values and other personality characteristics.
• For successful implementation of the continuous assessment approach, teachers need to give
most tests, which means more marking. They need to observe the learners more keenly to
assess their affective outcomes, and there will be more records to be kept on the learners.
• Another problem with continuous assessment is the issue of record keeping. Learners’ records
have to be adequately and meticulously kept over a long period of time.

22.8 Keywords

Continuous : Happening or existing for a period of time without interruption
Assessment : An opinion or a judgement about something that has been thought about
very carefully
Inclusion : The fact of including something/Somebody

22.9 Review Questions

1. Explain the term “Continuous assessment”.
2. Why is the need for Continuous assessment is evaluation ?
3. Give some ways by which purposes of Continuous assessment can be achieved.
4. What are the types of Continuous assessment. Give their advantages and disadvantages of
Continuous assessment.
5. Give principles of Continuous assessment.
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Continuous assessment ?
Answers : Self Assessment

1. (i) Continuous assessment (ii) Self evaluation, pupil specific activities,
(iii) Daily work, project papers, practical work
2. (i) T (ii) T (iii)F (iv)T (v) F
22.10 Further Readings

1. Education Measurement and Evaluation : J.Swarupa Rani, Discovery Publishing
house.
2. Measurement and Evaluation in Teaching : Norman Edward Gronlund Macmillian
3. Measurement and Assessment in Teaching : Robert L. Linn Pearson Education
India.
4. Program Evaluation and performance measurement : James C. Me. David, Laura
R.L. Hawthorn, Sage Publications.

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