NPTEL NBA Accreditation and Teaching-Learning in Engineering (NATE) Assignment 1

Assignment 1

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These two became the foci of higher education in India since 2015. 

 Accreditation

 Employability

 Ability to do research

 Outcome Based Education

Yes, the answer is correct.
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Accreditation

Outcome Based Education

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Two activities engineers are likely to get involved more during the first few years after graduation include

 Write technical reports

 Test technical products and systems 

 Sell technical products

 Design and develop products 

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Test technical products and systems 

Design and develop products 

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Washington Accord

 Guarantees the graduating engineers to work in any of the signatory countries

 Recognizes the substantial equivalence of programs accredited by signatory countries

 Guarantees the quality of graduating engineers

 Assures the students graduating from programs in the signatory countries are good engineers

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Recognizes the substantial equivalence of programs accredited by signatory countries

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An Outcome is

 The topic the teacher covered in the classroom

 A Unit of the syllabus of a course

 What the student should be able to do at the end of a learning experience 

 The result of interaction between the teacher and students

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What the student should be able to do at the end of a learning experience 

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In Outcome Based Education

 Process leads to learning product

 Product defines the process 

 Learning process defines the product

 Teaching is emphasized

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Product defines the process 

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The criterion “Faculty Information and Contributions” carries maximum weightage in accreditation (200 out of 1000 marks) because

 Faculty constitute the weakest element

 Faculty constitute the main change agents 

 The programs cannot be conducted without faculty

 The program is not even permitted to be conducted without adequate number of faculty.

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Faculty constitute the main change agents 

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Criterion 4: Performance of students is at the Program level.  Performance with respect to Criterion 4 is partly measured through two of the following

 Success rates in all semesters

 Visiting faculty

 Participation in professional activities

 Research and development by the faculty

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Success rates in all semesters

Participation in professional activities

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Education in its technical sense

 Deals with intentional learning 

 Is receiving new information from teachers

 Is learning along with other students

 Is learning in a school for several years

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Deals with intentional learning 

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Teaching is

 Transferring information to learners in a formal setting

 The process of helping others to acquire knowledge, skills and values

 Demonstration of new knowledge and skills

 Assessing the performance of students

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The process of helping others to acquire knowledge, skills and values

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These two are important features of an outcome statement

 Should unambiguously state what the student should be able to do/perform

 Should be complementary to the topic addressed

 What the students do or perform are observable and measurable

 Should enable the teachers to teach well

Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1

Accepted Answers:

Should unambiguously state what the student should be able to do/perform

What the students do or perform are observable and measurable