Evaluation on Grading

Educational evaluation is the measurement of the growth and progress of pupils towards accepted objectives and values. It is an inseparable component of the teaching learning process. For the teacher, evaluation helps in the checking of his/her success in teaching in terms of pupil development. For the pupils, it is the appraisal of progress made towards individual and group objectives and also who helps them to know their standing in the class and diagnose their strengths and weaknesses. For the administrator, evaluation helps to assess the success of teachers and the whole programme. For the parent evaluation helps to monitor their children’s progress and understand their ability to translate learning from the school to the home situation. Thus, evaluation is an inseparable component of the teaching learning process.

Evaluation should be comprehensive

• Learning is an active mental process.

• Development of all the process skills are to be evaluated.

• Scientific knowledge, facts, concepts, attitude and interest are to be evaluated.

Evaluation should be a continuous process

• Child progresses through different learning experiences.  Learning progress should be evaluated from time to time.  Learner must develop a convincing understanding of new information developed through learning experience.  They are to be given all help for this.  The students may make use of the help of the teacher to solve difficulties in learning.  Thus opportunities for continuous improvement is provided to the teacher and the student.

Evaluation should be an essential component of learning process

• Evaluation is a process which should proceed along with learning.  The aims of evaluation cannot be achieved only through term end or year end evaluation of pupils.  Continuous evaluation is important here.  The activities that are carried out in a classroom are meant for developing different abilities in children.  The pupil should achieve both in scholastic and co-scholastic areas.  In all these situations the pupil should be continuously evaluated.

Self evaluation and peer evaluation

• Various strategies can be adopted for evaluation. Self evaluation and peer evaluation by pupils is also found to be effective.

Approaches to Evaluation

At present, education is conceived as being ‘learner centered’ and involves new teaching learning processes. Continuous and comprehensive evaluation has become an integral part of meaningful education. One time evaluation alone using single evaluation tool has been proved to be ineffective and does not give the teacher a comprehensive picture of the outcome of the education processes and the overall development of the child. Hence, in addition to the written and practical examination, in the learner centered approach, different tools are used for continuous evaluation of the multi-dimensional competencies of the learner.

Types of evaluation