| Saturday, November 17, 2007
Anna University, Coimbatore, adopts new assessment and evaluation
patterns
It has adopted rigorous curriculum that has 35 credits in six
trimesters: VC
COIMBATORE: To bring about a shift from testing the “abilities
of rote” of a student to testing “abilities at diligent
application of the mind, discernment and discrimination”,
Anna University, Coimbatore, has introduced new patterns of
evaluation and assessment.
According to Vice-Chancellor R. Radhakrishnan, the internal
assessment has been placed at 50 per cent, instead of 20 per
cent. It will recognise the student’s ability to work
innovatively and independently of class room instructions, and
not base the assessment only on internal tests and assignments.
The pattern of the terminal examination question paper will
be devised to test the student’s ability to imbibe and
apply knowledge. It will have components of tricky objective
questions and short answers to test application. The long questions
will test the ability of the student to systematically apply
domain knowledge. It will also have a case study that requires
a complete appreciation of a complicated practical situation
and evaluates analytical skills in the process of attempting
solutions.
The university has experimented with the Trimester System also.
The system, though common in premier management institutions,
is not so in main stream education.
The Vice-Chancellor points out that the university has adopted
a rigorous curriculum that has 35 credits in six trimesters.
In addition, it includes industrial internship, live projects
and dissertations.
These, he believes, will give the students an advantage which
will be on a par with their counterparts in business schools
who undergo residential programmes.
The university is offering some unique management courses besides
the conventional ones. It will hold the first trimester terminal
examinations from November 19, when 487 management students
of the university and 2,125 students of its affiliated colleges
will appear.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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