Minutes of meeting of Deans on 6th July 2017 regarding Examination process
The first meeting regarding examination process was conducted on 6th July 2017 in the dental committee room at 2:00 pm.
The following members were present for the meeting:
- Dr T.D Dogra- Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the meeting
- Dr Daleep Singh- Pro-vice Chancellor
- Mr H.K Pir- Registrar
- Dr Khazan Singh Sangwan- Controller of examinations
- Mr Balvinder Singh- Adds COE
- Dr H.S Grover- Dean Education, Examinations and International affairs
- Dr S.C Mohapatra- Dean Academic Affairs
- Mr M.K Nair- Dean Fashion and Design
- Dr Naresh – Professor, Behavioural Sciences
- Mr Kamal Piyush- Dean, Hotel and Tourism Management
- Dr Rajiv Khanna- Director and Dean, faculty of Law
- Dr K.R Dagur- Dean, Agriculture
- Dr Snehlata Verma, Off Dean, Faculty of Education
- Dr Astha Chaudhry- Reader, FDS
The agenda of the meeting was discussion regarding the examination pattern of each faculty and to discuss about increasing the practical component in each. Each faculty examination pattern was first presented by Dr Astha Chaudhry pointing mainly towards the ratio of theory and practical and then discussion was done on the feasibility of the same.
- The meeting began with presentation about Faculty of Fashion and Design existing examination process. It was found that theory and practical component was 1:1 which was actually very good. Dr Grover suggested on including internship in the curriculum during which assignments also will be given to the students and it will be evaluated. Some internal marks (10 marks ) can be kept for the internship.
- Examination pattern of Faculty of Behavioural Sciences was presented where it was found that theory : practical was actually 1:3 which is the need of the hour. Dr Naresh told that they have also revised the pattern a bit where practical is included with each theory paper, Students are given regular assignments and Log book is also maintained. Sir also urged that they shall be keeping Friday as assessment day as they have kept Saturday as field training day.
- Presentation of examination pattern of Agricultural Sciences was done by where theory:practical was 3:1. Dr Dagur explained that they follow choice based system where in student will select one of the 5 modules. The 4th semester was practical itself and the course is designed according to the regulations of council where credit points have been given for theory and practical and if practical component will be increased, the whole time table and duration of the hours will need to be changed to keep the required credit points.
- Presentation on exam pattern of Faculty of Education was done next where it was found that practical component was different in each semester and it was bit less. So it was urged by pro-VC sir and Dogra sir to go through the guidelines of NCTE(National Council of Teacher Education) as it emphasizes practical learning more than theory classes. It was also pointed out that Distribution of marks in each semester is different and it is decreasing s semester is increasing, there should be rationalisation of marks and revisions in the examination pattern of education are required as there are some areas like school profile, psychology profile that are not considered for exams or marks and should be considered for overall evaluation of student. Faculty of Education to present the revised pattern within 3-4 days.
- Next Presentation on faculty of Hotel and Tourism management was done wherein it was found that practical learnings and practical evaluation in this faculty is almost 1:1 and should be continued in the same manner.
- Last presentation was on faculty of Law where theory:practical was 85:15. Dr Rajiv Khanna insisted that this patten has been revised to make the practical component. 50% but it needs to be approved first by Board of Studies and then by Academic Council . Once it is approved, it will be implemented.
- Dr Dogra then asked all gathered if it is feasible to have uniform theory paper pattern for whole University . On consensus of all, it was then decided that theory question paper pattern should be changed where all types of questions should be asked to overall evaluate the student.
- The questions to be included are:
- Long essay
- Short notes with a specific word limit
- Discriminative questions like differences/similarities
- Problem based question/case study
- Definitions/concept to test the recall by the student
- Interpretation question to check the interpretation/application ability of student.
- Objective types of questions
- Single response MCQs
- Multiple response MCQs
- Matching type
- Assertion and reasoning etc
- All the gathered faculties are requested to prepare a model question paper according to their distribution of marks and incorporating all these types of questions and they should submit this model question paper to the collegium of Deans office by 18th July 2017.
- On discussing about the practical methodology, Dogra sir mentioned that OSCE and OSPE should be introduced.
- A separate LOG Book should be made for UG and PG student where student will mention about their daily work done and it should be time and again checked by the faculty and then overall evaluation marks should also be kept for the same. All the faculties gathered were also asked to make their own pattern of LOG Books and should submit to Collegium of Deans office by 18th July 2017. As the Log book maintenance is very crucial for NAAC and this should be implemented by the new batch students (2017-18).