Week 2 : Assignment

Due date for this assignment: 2018-02-21, 23:59 IST.

2 points
Outcome based education addresses the following key questions :

A. What do you want the students to be able to do?

B. How student will get highest grade/marks?

C. How can you help the students to achieve their goal?

D. How student will pass the examination?

2 points
Challenges of 21st Century Education are : How to -

A. improve the student engagement and equip the students with the 21st century knowledge, skills and
attitudes

B. improve the teaching quality

C. improve the student marks/grade

D. ensure life-long learning

2 points
Approaches for designing outcome based learning are :

A. systematically design and develop outcome based curriculum

B. include references to appropriate learning materials for all defined outcomes. Include case studies,
unsolved problems and resources for the respective outcome.

C. include adequate number of nontrivial practice problems, assignments etc. matching every course
outcome to allow students to test their learning success

D. provide coaching to the learner to get the highest grade/marks in the examination
2 points
What can be the Value of Accreditation?

A. students transferring between accredited programs can have some sense of equivalence

B. students with an accredited undergraduate degree from one country may/should receive better
consideration in another country than a student from an unaccredited program

C. accreditation provides/forces a periodic consideration of educational programs and provides outside

benchmarks and evaluation

D. it certifies that the program produces best quality student.

2 points
Domain independent program outcome can be achieved through

Providing interdisciplinary courses

 Through domain dependence courses

Teaching learning process

You may submit any number of times before the due date. The final submission will be considered for grading.

Week 3

Assignment

Table-1 represents the score of 30 students in a MCQ test examination. Each test item has design 2 marks and
has four options (A, B, C, D). Answer the following
Table-1
 Which test item has highest Discrimination Index?(Refer Table 1)

Test Item -1

Test Item -2

Test Item -1 and Test Item -3

Test Item -5
2 points
Which test item has highest Facilitation Value?(Refer Table-1)

Test Item -4

Test Item -5

Test Item -3 and Test Item -1

Test Item -2
2 points
Compute value of the Effectiveness of Distractor A in test item-1 (Refer Table -1)

A. 1/8

B. 1/16

C. 1/4

D. 2/6
2 points
Compute value of the Effectiveness of Distractor D in test item-3 (Refer Table -1)

A. 1/16

B. 1/8

C. 1/4

D. 0
2 points
1.5 Compute value of the Effectiveness of Distractor D in test item-4 (Refer Table -1)

A. 0

B. 1/4

C. 1/8

D. 1/16
1 point
Which one of the following is not an Assessment Technique?

a. Class test

b. Term paper
 c. Entrance examination

d. Lab report
1 point
Which one of the following defines Assessment?

A. Process of gathering data to measure degree of attainment of course goals

B. Assessment data quantified for each student for all relevant assessments

C. Value judgment made based on Criteria / Norm

1 point
In Criteria based Assessments if the learner not attained expected outcomes then which of the following
conclusion is considered to evaluate effectiveness of instruction?

A. The Criteria/ outcomes which are set in the beginning of the course are not achievable

B. The teaching learning process is not appropriate to achieve the Criteria/ outcomes

C. It does not depend on whether Criteria/ outcomes are achievable or not

1 point
Which of the following statement/s is/are true for the formative assessment?

A. Inferences drawn can be used for improvement of instructions

B. Narrow content focus, conducted periodically

C. Conducted at the end of the course, for final grading

D. May need normalization before evaluation

1 point
1. Discrimination Index of a test item indicate

a) How difficult it is

b) How easy it is

c) It differentiate high performing student over low performing student

d) It distract the good student