Appreciation’ about Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation for Children with Hearing Impairment by General and Special Educators - A comparative study

Authors: [1] Shobha N Odunavar[1] [2] Devaraju N.B

Pages: 96-100

Abstract:

Today’s Education system which has inclusive approach and aimed to meet the mission of holistic development of each and every child irrespective of ability and disability who comes under the roof of inclusive classroom. Day today overall development of the children in the classroom can be seen effectively with help of continuous and comprehensive evaluation. Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation manual (CCE) for teachers-Classes VI to VIII (2010) has revealed that all commissions and committees related to education have recommended reducing the emphasis on external examination and encouraging the internal assessment. It is also suggests that a school can deal with the differently abled students by forming team consisting of the school counselor, class teacher, peer mentor or buddy. Hence, the need was felt to check the appreciation level of the general as well as special educators about the continuous and comprehensive evaluation for children with hearing impairment. The participants for the study were the teachers who are working in general and special school at secondary level. A descriptive sample survey method with random sample technique was followed to collect data from 60 teachers. On the basis of the CCE manual for teachers-Classes VI to VII (2010) a questionnaire was prepared and used to collect the data from different schools of Mysuru and Bengaluru city. A Mann Whitney U-test was used to analyze the data. Result shows that there is a significant difference between the appreciation level of the general and special educators about continuous and comprehensive evaluation for children with hearing impairment.