General Paper on Teaching & Research Aptitude
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Unit-I: Teaching Aptitude
тАв Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding and Reflective), Characteristics and basic requirements.
тАв LearnerтАЩs characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional and Cognitive), Individual differences.
тАв Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and Institution.
тАв Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher centred vs. Learner centred methods; Off-line vs. On-line methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).
тАв Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern and ICT based.
тАв Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher education, Computer based testing, Innovations in evaluation systems.
Unit-II: Research Aptitude
тАв Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Post-positivistic approach to research.
тАв Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative and Quantitative methods.
тАв Steps of Research.
тАв Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing.
тАв Application of ICT in research.
тАв Research ethics.
Unit-III: Comprehension
тАв A passage of text be given. Questions be asked from the passage to be answered.
Unit-IV Communication
тАв Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of communication.
тАв Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group
communications, Classroom communication.
тАв Barriers to effective communication.
тАв Mass-Media and Society.
Unit-V: Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude
тАв Types of reasoning.
тАв Number series, Letter series, Codes and Relationships.
тАв Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages etc.).
Unit-VI: Logical Reasoning
тАв Understanding the structure of arguments: argument forms, structure of categorical propositions, Mood and Figure, Formal and Informal fallacies, Uses of language, Connotations and denotations of terms, Classical square of opposition.
тАв Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning.
тАв Analogies.
тАв Venn diagram: Simple and multiple use for establishing validity of arguments.
тАв Indian Logic: Means of knowledge.
тАв Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication) and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension).
тАв Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference).
Unit-VII: Data Interpretation
тАв Sources, acquisition and classification of Data.
тАв Quantitative and Qualitative Data.
тАв Graphical representation (Bar-chart, Histograms, Pie-chart, Table-chart and Line-chart) and mapping of Data.
тАв Data Interpretation.
тАв Data and Governance.
Unit-VIII: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
тАв ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.
тАв Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing.
тАв Digital initiatives in higher education.
тАв ICT and Governance.
Unit-IX: People, Development and Environment
тАв Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals.
тАв Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on environment.
тАв Environmental issues: Local, Regional and Global; Air pollution, Water pollution, Soil pollution, Noise pollution, Waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), Climate change and its Socio-Economic and Political dimensions.
тАв Impacts of pollutants on human health.
тАв Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests.
тАв Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies.
тАв Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International agreements/efforts -Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance.
Unit-X: Higher Education System
тАв Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India.
тАв Evolution of higher learning and research in Post Independence India.
тАв Oriental, Conventional and Non-conventional learning programmes in India.
тАв Professional, Technical and Skill Based education.
тАв Value education and environmental education.
тАв Policies, Governance, and Administration.