IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTINUOUS AND COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT AT SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF KENDRAPADA DISTRICT

This study focuses on examining the views of secondary teachers about implementation of continuous and comprehensive assessment in rural and urban secondary schools. The investigator used purposive sampling and selected ten secondary schools which comprised of five urban and five rural areas in Kendrapada district of Odisha. The Descriptive Survey method with qualitative approaches and questionnaire was employed to get data from forty secondary schools' teachers. The findings revealed that most rural schools' teachers reported that the Government is not providing sufficient in -service training to competent in the different areas of continuous and comprehensive assessment. All the teachers of both urban and rural schools viewed that two summative and four formative Assessment were conducted regularly. It is therefore recommended that school and mass education should cater to in-service teachers, raining to adept them with new tools and techniques of Continuous and Comprehensive assessment.