Effectiveness of continuous and comprehensive evaluation on the performance of social science

Evaluation is widely acknowledged as a powerful means of improving the quality of education. The introduction of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) is considered as one of the major steps taken in this regard to improve and strengthen the quality of education. Continuous and comprehensive evaluation is a continuous process which helps in forming the values of judgment, educational status, or achievement of the students. It is more comprehensive and includes all the changes that take place during the development of a balanced personality. It provides opportunities to find out the needs, goals, interests and aptitudes of an individual. The present paper is tried to highlight the need and importance continuous and comprehensive evaluation, specially in social science of V standard students. 100 sample of V standard students were taken from Kamrup (rural) District of Assam. Statistical techniques like- Mean, S.D, t-test, bar graph etc were used to test the hypotheses of the present study.