This is thoroughly answered here. Just so, what is the purpose of continuous assessment?
The purpose of assessment is to gather relevant information about student performance or progress, or to determine student interests to make judgments about their learning process. Continuous assessment provides day-to-day feedback about the learning and teaching process.
Likewise, what are the problem of continuous assessment? The students gave the problem of continuous assessment as lack of qualified teachers, large number of students in class, teachers not well paid etc. The teachers gave problems of continuous assessment as students cheating in continuous assessment, students not organized etc.
In respect to this, what are the techniques of continuous assessment?
Continuous assessment can be used in two ways; (summative) assessment on activities/products contributing to the final grade or (formative) assessment on activities/products not contributing to the final grade. In both cases, feedback to lecturer and/or students is part of the process.
What is the advantage of continuous assessment?
The main advantages claimed for continuous assessment are that it provides immediate and repeated feedback to the student about his academic progress, and by spreading the period in which students are assessed continuous assessment reduces the peaks of intense pressure experienced under the traditional examination
