Research and Teaching Aptitude

Paper Code: 
25GSSAA220
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 

Course Objective

This course will enable the students to develop a conceptual understanding of teaching and research aptitude, exhibit cognitive ability including comprehension and communication and mathematical reasoning.

 
Course Outcomes: 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

25GSSAA220

Research and Teaching Aptitude (Theory)

CO82:Distinguish the new techniques in their professional development and they will be able to analyse and compile the new avenues of teaching and learning.

CO83: 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.

CO84: Formulate and reinforce the writing, grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation skills of the students.

Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, reading assignments; Solving questions

Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments

Class test, Unit end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in Assignments.

 

   

CO85: 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.

CO86: 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.

CO87: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

    

 

12.00
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, Swayam prabha, MOOCs etc.).Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern and ICT based

  • Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher education, Computer based testing, Innovations in evaluation systems

12.00
Unit II: 
Research Aptitude

  • Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Post- positivistic approach to research

  • Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative and Quantitative methods

  • Steps of Research

  • Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing

  • Application of ICT in research

  • Research ethics

12.00
Unit III: 
Comprehension

An unseen passage will be given

12.00
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 Reasoning and Aptitude

  • Types of reasoning.

  • Number series, Letter series, Codes and Relationships.

  • Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages etc.).

  • Introduction

Essential Readings: 

Essential Readings:

 

  • Research Methodology by C.R. Kothari

  • Mathematics by R.S. Agarwal

  • Verbal Reasoning by R.S. Agarwal

References: 

Suggested Readings:

 

  • Qualitative methods in social research by Boston

E-Resources:

 

Academic Year: 
2025-2026
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