A Comparative study on the Opinion of Government and private school teachers of Chittoor district towards Continuous comprehensive evaluation

Evaluation is widely acknowledged as a powerful means of improving the quality of education. The introduction of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) is considered as one of the major steps taken in this regard to improve and strengthen the quality of learner evaluation. The state of Andhra Pradesh has been going through a series of educational reforms over the last decade or so and the introduction of CCE in the state is one among them. Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) is the buzz word being in the air since the talks of the examination reforms being given utmost importance as far as the Indian education system is concerned. The main objective of the study is to find out the opinion of teachers towards continuous and comprehensive evaluation. Accordingly the hypotheses were formulated. For this purpose the sample of 100 teachers were purposively selected. After establishing proper rapport the questionnaire was administered to the subjects. The data was scored according to the scoring procedure given in the manual. To study the significance of difference between the various groups t test was applied. The overall results indicated that the there is significant difference between the opinion of school teachers towards continuous comprehensive evaluation in relation to Gender and type of management of school.