Best Practices in Technical Education

Case Study:

BYDr. N. Asokan , N. Meenakshi , Lecturer(IT)

Best Practices1. Pre-requisite knowledge 2. Mapping of five units3. Mapping with other subjects 4. Delivering pre-requisite knowledge5. Specific instructional objectives in accordance with

Bloom’s revised taxonomy6. Lesson plan7. Teaching learning process 8. Evaluation at the end of the semester in accordance

with Bloom’s revised taxonomy9. Mapping of objectives, teaching learning process and

assessment in the Bloom’s revised taxonomy table.

KNOWLEDGEDIMENSION

THE COGNITIVE PROCESS DIMENSION

1.REMEMBER

2.UNDERSTAND

3.APPLY

4.ANALYZE

5.EVALUATE

6.CREATE

A.FACTUAL

KNOWLEDGE

B. CONCEPTUALKNOWLEDGE

C. PROCEDURALKNOWLEDGE

D. META-

COGNITIVEKNOWLEDGE

Taxonomy Table

Department/Academic year

No of Students subject

IT / 2009-2010 60 User Interface Design

Sample

KNOWLEDGEDIMENSION

THE COGNITIVE PROCESS DIMENSION

1.REMEMBER

2.UNDERSTAND

3.APPLY

4.ANALYZE

5.EVALUATE

6.CREATE

A.FACTUAL

KNOWLEDGE10 activities

B. CONCEPTUALKNOWLEDGE

4 activities 1.To explain how to choose the image2. To explain multimedia, 3. To explain types of errors,4. To explain coloring

C. PROCEDURALKNOWLEDGE

To apply the designing

concepts to create a web

page

D. META-

COGNITIVEKNOWLEDGE

Mapping of “To apply the designing concepts to create a web page” Objective, Teaching Learning

Process (activities) and Assessment

Table of Specifications

UNIT

No.of objectives pertaining to Factual

Knowledge/Remember

No.of Questions

No.of objectives pertaining Conceptual Knowledge/ Understand

No.of Questions

No.of objectives pertaining Procedural Knowledge/

Apply

No.of Questions

Total No.of Objectives in Interface

Design subject

Total No.of Questions

selected for End

semester exam.

1 3 2 7 2 0 0 10 4

2 10 2 11 2 0 0 21 4

3 6 2 8 1 4 1 18 4

4 4 2 8 2 0 0 12 4

5 3 4 6 1 5 1 14 6Total 26 12 40 8 9 2 75 22

KNOWLEDGEDIMENSION

THE COGNITIVE PROCESS DIMENSION

1.REMEMBER

2.UNDERSTAND

3.APPLY

4.ANALYZE

5.EVALUATE

6.CREATE

A.FACTUAL

KNOWLEDGE

26 Objectives26 Activities 12 Questions

18.3% mastered

B. CONCEPTUALKNOWLEDGE

40 Objectives40 Activities 8 Questions

13% mastered

C. PROCEDURALKNOWLEDGE

9 Objectives9Activities

2 Questions8% mastered

D. META-

COGNITIVEKNOWLEDGE

Mapping of “User Interface Design” subject Objective, Teaching Learning Process (activities) and Assessment

Findings

1. There are 26 objectives pertaining to Factual Knowledge, out which 12 objectives are used for evaluation of students at the end of the semester.

2. 11 out of 60 students (remembered) i.e. 18.30% of students correctly answered all the 12 objectives

3. 21 out of 60 students (remembered) i.e.,35% of students correctly answered 50 % of the objectives.

Findings

4. There are 40 objectives pertaining to Conceptual l Knowledge, out which 8 objectives are used for evaluation of students at the end of the semester.

5. 8 out of 60 students (understood) i.e.,13% of students correctly answered these objectives.

6. 24 out of 60 students (understood) i.e.,40 % of students correctly answered 50 % of the objectives.

Findings

7. There are 9 objectives pertaining to Procedural Knowledge.

8. 2 objectives are used for evaluation of students at the end of the semester. 5 out of 60 students (able to apply the factual and conceptual knowledge in a given situation) i.e.,8% of students correctly answered these objectives.

9. 11 out of 60 students (able to apply the factual and conceptual knowledge in a given situation) i.e.,18.30% of students correctly answered 50 % of the objectives.

Conclusion If all the objectives, activities and assessment

are placed in the taxonomy table, then it helps us to "understand about understanding".

The "miss-alignments" can be identified with the help of this taxonomy table.

By examining the taxonomy table the teacher can easily identify areas of knowledge, or levels of the cognitive domain, that has not been covered by the learning activities.

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