PREPARATION OF RUBRICS FOR CONTINUOUS COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION IN THE CHANGING TRENDS OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Quality concern in school education is one of the major priorities, if quality education is the goal, it can not be achieved without the sincere efforts of teachers. There is sea change in the mode of teacher Education process. The vibrant reorientation is taking place in the area of curriculum construction, pedagogy and evaluation processes of teacher education. To meet the need of the hour, the required competencies have to be essentially developed amongst student teachers so that they face the real challenges in teaching learning process. These competencies have to be based on practical experiences of self orga nization, communicable techniques and thinking systematically with appropriate skills to perform with high degree of interest for teaching. A fresh thinking has to start in the process of evaluation system at teacher education level. Continuous comprehensi ve evaluation system has become useful in this process in testing the qualitative aspects of affective and psychomotor learning amongst student teachers. Using innovative ideas and techniques in testing the behavioral aspects of the teachers is the need of the hour. Under this, the rubrics have become handy. Learning to construct Rubrics for CCE in the changing trends of Teacher Education attracted the researcher to concentrate. 40 students were chosen from methods of teaching social sciences, they were divi ded into two groups one was considered as control group and another was experimental group. Post test design was selected for the calculations. The students of experimental group were made to prepare rubric with specific criteria for the assessment based o n the objectives for the study.