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| Monday, April 07 , 2008
The new rating methodology
India is one of the largest higher educational systems in the
world, having more than 400 universities, 18,000 colleges and
an enrolment of 11 million students.
The present enrolment is eight per cent which is low compared
with to the world average of 23 per cent. The 11th Five Year
Plan aims at raising it to 15 per cent at the end of the Plan.
Today we are in the era of quality and excellence. Educational
institutions are voluntarily assessing their quality through
the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and
are proudly exhibiting their accreditation status. NAAC has
redesigned its methodology in the changing higher education
scenario.
The new methodology came into effect from April 1, 2007. It
is on the lines of the internationally accepted system i.e.
the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). It is applicable
for accreditation, re-assessment and re-accreditation of HEIs.
The CGPA refers to the weighted mean value of all the grade
points earned by the institution for its quality parameters.
The instrument for assessment and accreditation has been designed
with seven criteria as quality parameters with criterion-wise
key aspects. There are 36 key aspects and each is further differentiated
into assessment indicators to be used as guidelines/probes by
assessors to capture the micro-level quality pointers.
The key aspects under each criterion have their own weightages
according to the relative importance of the said key aspect
in the context of the type of institution. There are specified
differential weightages according to the type of institution
(university, autonomous college, affiliated/constituent colleges).
For the key aspect under a criterion based on the assessment
indicators, quality points are assigned to a specific letter
grade i.e. 4 for A; 3 for B; 2 for C and 1 for D. e.g: for curriculum
design and development, the weightage is 50 and the key aspect
grade is B i.e. 3 points. Then the key aspect grade point average
is 50 x 3 = 150 total grade points.
The summarised total grade points of all the key aspects under
each criterion will be calculated with appropriate weightages
based on the above points. The summary of all these weighted
scores is divided by the total weightage i.e. 1000, the sum
obtained will be the final institutional quality level on a
four point scale.
Courtesy: The Hindu - Education Plus
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