Research & Teaching Aptitude

Paper Code: 
25GSAA220
Credits: 
4
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.

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Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning Outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course title

25GSAA220

 

Research & Teaching Aptitude

(Theory)

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

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: Formulateand 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 Solving

Questions.

 

Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Brain storming sessions.

Continuous Assignments Tests, Solving numerical problems. & Assignments.
   
   
   

 

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, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).TeachingSupportSystem:Traditional,ModernandICTbased.
  • Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher education, Computer basedtesting, Innovations in evaluation systems.

 

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Unit II: 
Research Aptitude

·        Research:Meaning,Types,andCharacteristics,PositivismandPost- positivistic approach to research.

·        MethodsofResearch:Experimental,Descriptive,Historical,Qualitative and Quantitative methods.

·        StepsofResearch.

·        ThesisandArticlewriting:Formatandstylesofreferencing.

·        ApplicationofICTinresearch.

Researchethics

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Unit III: 
Comprehension

An unseen passage will be given

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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 Reasoningand Aptitude:
  • Typesofreasoning.
  • Numberseries, Letterseries, Codes and Relationships.
  • Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, ProfitandLoss, 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: 

SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS:

  • Qualitative methods in social research by Boston

 

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Academic Session: 
2025-26
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