RESEARCH AND TEACHING APTITUDE (THEORY)

Paper Code: 
24GSAA220
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
This course will enable the students to develop a conceptual understanding of teaching and research aptitude, exhibit cognitive ability including comprehension and communication & mathematical reasoning.

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Course Code

Course title

24GSAA220

RESEARCH AND TEACHING APTITUDE

(THEORY)

 

CO1: distinguish the new techniques in their professional development and they will be able to analyze and compile the new avenues of teaching and learning.

CO2: discover new facts, to verify and test important facts, to analyze an event or process or phenomenon to identify        the cause-and-effect    relationship, to develop new scientific tools, concepts, and theories to solve    and understand scientific         and  nonscientific problems.

CO3: Formulate and reinforce the writing, grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation skills of the students.

CO4: design ways to adapt their communication style and methods to create understanding and engagement with others. Use communication techniques to enhance their communication skills professionally and academically.

CO5: higher level of aptitude results in better performance in learning and adapting to it. It allows students to employ critical skills to examine a mathematical question.

CO6: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

Approach in

teaching: Interactive

Lectures, Discussion,

Reading assignments; Solving Questions.

 

Learning activities for the students: Self- learning assignments, Effective questions.-

Class test, Unit end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in Assignments.

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Teaching Aptitude

·      Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding and Reflective), Characteristics and basic requirements.

·      Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional and Cognitive), Individual differences.

·      Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and Institution.

·      Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher centered vs. Learner centered methods; Off-line vs. On-line methods (Swayam, Swayam prabha, MOOCs etc.).Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern and ICT based.

Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher education, Computer based testing, Innovations in evaluation systems

12.00
Unit II: 
Research Aptitude
  • Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Post- positivistic approach to research.
  • Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative and Quantitative methods.
  • Steps of Research.
  • Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing.
  • Application of ICT in research.
  • Research ethics.

 

Unit III: 
Comprehension
  • An unseen passage will be given.

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Communication
  • Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of communication.
  • Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group communications, Classroom communication.
  • Barriers to effective communication.
  • Mass-Media and Society.

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude
  • Types of reasoning.
  • Number series, Letter series, Codes and Relationships.
  • Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages etc.).

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Research Methodology by C.R. Kothari
  • Mathematics by R.S. Agarwal
  • Verbal Reasoning by R.S. Agarwal

 

References: 
  • Qualitative methods in social research by Boston

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
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