Deployment of Institutional Strategic Plan
Deployment of formative assessment:
The practice on assessment at Dayananda Sagar University is aimed to assist students scientifically, continuously improve teaching-learning process, and overall development of students. DSU has implemented a strategic plan to focus on the regular formative assessment of learning outcomes, rather than the usually followed summative assessment. This strategy is in tune with implementation of NEP 2020 across the country.
DSU has introduced a system of assessment with 60 % weightage to the continuous internal assessment, and 40 % weightage for the student performance in semester-end examinations. This scheme is more regular, formative and individualized, oriented more towards competency-based; and encourages learning, development, and real-continuous as well as comprehensive improvement of students.
Deployment of inbuilt hands-on experience in regular courses:
With an objective of implementing experiential learning and striking a fine balance between theory and practice, the hand-on / laboratory components are integrated into the regular courses themselves. These hands-on components could be hardware or software based experiments, modelling and simulation, programming, or usage of a modern tool. The hands-on components are assessed entirely during in-semester assessments, and the theory components are assessed during semester-end examination.
Deployment of a 2-credit course – Special Topics:
A 2-credit course, referred to as Special Topic, has been introduced during prefinal year semesters, with a predefined, flexible, framework allowing options like, project-based learning, mini projects, critique of a research paper, research problem formulation, case studies, reflection notes, simulations, software / app programming / development, usage of a modern tool / software, and so on. These methods induce experimental and participatory learning, and facilitate creativity, visualizations, and conceptualizing capacity. The assessment of Special Topics is finalized as an in-semester examination, thus laying importance to acquisition of formative knowledge.
Representative evidences for implementation:
Weblink: Assessment and Grading system
Weblink: Representative curriculum with lab integrated courses
Weblink: Representative curriculum with 2-credit Special Topic
