Question- What are the various aspects of continuous assessment?

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The term 'continuous' refers to regularity in assessment. The development of a child is a continuous process. Therefore, student's development should be assessed continuously. Evaluation has to be completely integrated with the teaching and learning process.

Evaluating students on a continuous basis in a cyclic manner is one aspect of CCE. The term continuous includes continual and periodicity aspects of evaluation.

Continual aspects of learning refers to the assessment of learner's progress on various aspects from the very beginning of instructions, sometimes referred as placement evaluation. Continual aspect also refers or includes the evaluation of learners during the instructional process through various formal or informal methods of evaluation, also referred to as formative evaluation.

Another aspect associated with continuous evaluation is periodicity of evaluation. Periodicity means evaluation of performance of learners should be done frequently at the end of every unit or term. This is also known as summative evaluation.

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