Schemes of Scoring

• Continuous and comprehensive Evaluation comprises of both Scholastic and Co Scholastic Areas. Each Term of an academic year would have a Formative and one Summative Assessment.
• Formative Assessment (FA) is assessment that happens throughout each term. It allows scope for use in a diagnostic and remedial manner.
• Summative Assessment (SA) is conducted at the end of every term. It is blueprint-based, objective, written, individual and graded. Each SA would only assess the syllabus covered during that term.

Scholastic Area - Curricular Learning Units

• All subjects: (Tamil, English, Maths, Science, Social Science) Summative Evaluation Questions would include Knowledge and Understanding Questions, Application-based Questions, Open Ended Questions, as per the blueprint.
• Physical Education / Folk Arts / Yoga / Gardening / Gymnastics Descriptive Indicators for Assessment would be based on criteria of performance, such as Involvement, Persistence, Regularity of Practice, Team Spirit (where required).
• Co Scholastic Areas include Life Skills (WHO recommended 10 Life Skills), Work Experience (SUPW), Visual and Performing Arts Attitudes and Values / Personality Development and Co curricular Activities like Scouts and Guides, NSS, Club Activities, Indigenous sports, or any other unique individual skills, descriptive.
• Evaluation Scheme for Connecting Methodology to Assessment:

  Classes I to X

  As it has been suggested by the NCERT, it is proposed to award Grades on a 9 - Point Scale after a Mark-based Assessment in Scholastic areas in order to avoid unnecessary competition among students and to nullify the subjectivity of Examiners.

  Indicators for assessing each of the co scholastic areas will be graded on a 5-Point Scale alone.

• Students will be evaluated in scholastic areas both by Formative and Summative assessments with the weightage of 40 and 60 percent marks respectively. Formative assessment happens throughout each term and provides scope for diagnostic and remedial measures. Summative assessment is conducted at the end of each term which tests subject competencies.
• The academic year would have 3 terms, as at present, or, as an alternative, 2 Terms, (June - October & November - April, based upon the Semester pattern followed by the Central Board of Secondary Education.
• Under Formative assessment, (Trimester pattern) equal weightage will be given to cognitive ability slip tests of written mode and skill based assessment for activities like discussion, project, debate, etc. In each subject, six Classroom Assessment Tests of 5 marks each need to be conducted and the marks of best 4 tests to be taken and recorded for 20 marks (4 x 5 = 20 marks). Similarly, for Skill Based Assessment, six activities to be taken and recorded for 20 marks (4x5=20). This process is carried out through each term.
• Assessment Framework - Scholastic Area (Formative Assessment would take place in 2 frames - FA (a) & (b))

  K-1)FA (a) - 2 best activities (classroom transactional process) out of a maximum of 4 for each child would be assessed for 20 marks (each 10 marks = 20)

  K-1)FA (b) Two slip tests are conducted for every semester on a maximum of50 marks each converted to 10 marks. Both the slip marks are consolidated for 20 marks.

  NOTE : 1. Song, Puppetry, Role-play, Craft, Games and Stories, etc; (Primary Level). Associative / Creative Activities, Summarizing / Organizing Activities, Interactive Activities, Performance-based Activities Investigative Activities and Remedial Activities. (Upper Primary, Secondary Levels.

  2. Evaluate Cognitive Skills at the end of each unit of the syllabus.

  3. In Term 2, for classes V/VI - X, the whole of the 20 marks assigned for FA (1) would be allocated for a Project / Assignment in any subject / area of the student's interest. This is to be done through the 2nd Term, and evaluated at the end of Term 2. (Activities for FA a and FA b will be designed in workshop and will be distributed to schools as implementation guide lines).

• As has been suggested by the NCERT, it is proposed to award Grades instead of Marks, in order to avoid unnecessary competition among students and to nullify the subjectivity of Examiners.

• Descriptive Indicators for assessing each of the co scholastic areanamely, Life Skill, Work Experience, Visual and Performing Arts, attitudes and Values, Personality Development and Co curricular Activities will be prescribed in the Teachers Manual which will be prepared by the evaluation. Grades for a particular descriptive indicator is given below.
• The content covered in one particular term will not be carried to next subsequent term. Basic concepts and practices, however, would need to be adequately reinforced and carried over.
• Assessment will be recorded thrice in a year in both Scholastic and CoScholastic areas in a progress card. The progress cards will be maintained independently in each area for each child. These records would be carried over throughout the period of schooling process. In the event of the transfer of the student, the Student Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation Record would be given to the student along with the Transfer Certificate.