Week 1 Assignment 1

1 point
Two activities engineers are likely to get involved more during the first few years
after graduation include

Strategize for the growth of the company

Design and develop products
Manage several project teams

Manufacture products

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Design and develop products
Manufacture products
1 point
Two characteristics of a good engineer considered more important by the industries

Awareness in all facets of engineering activities

Follow the instructions given by the boss
Awareness of customers’ needs and market trends

Punctual to the work

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Awareness in all facets of engineering activities
Awareness of customers’ needs and market trends
1 point
Engineering programs in India are offered as per the regulations of

Washington Accord
All India Council for Technical Education
National Board of Accreditation

Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology

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All India Council for Technical Education
1 point
Two benefits of Accreditation include

The Institution gets recognized as an institution of excellence

The institution gets to know its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities
Facilitates continuous Quality Improvement

The boundaries of quality are demarcated

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The institution gets to know its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities
Facilitates continuous Quality Improvement
1 point
An Outcome is

The topic the teacher covered in the classroom

A Unit of the syllabus of a course
What the student should be able to do at the end of a learning experience

The result of interaction between the teacher and students

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What the student should be able to do at the end of a learning experience
1 point
Students learn well

When outcomes are simple.

When teachers solve many problems in the class
When examinations are strictly in alignment with questions solved in the
classroom.

When assessments are in alignment with the outcomes

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When assessments are in alignment with the outcomes
1 point
The criterion “Faculty Information and Contributions” carries maximum weightage in
accreditation (200 out of 1000 marks) because

Faculty constitute the weakest element

Faculty constitute the main change agents
The programs cannot be conducted without faculty

The program is not even permitted to be conducted without adequate number of

faculty

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Faculty constitute the main change agents
1 point
First Year Academics is identified as a separate accreditation criterion because

First year academics are crucial to a four-year engineering program.

The first-year academics is looked after by the service department
There are too many sections for every course in first year.

The organization of first year academics is mostly independent of the remaining

three-year academics

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The organization of first year academics is mostly independent of the remaining three-
year academics
1 point
It is necessary to consider education philosophically because

Education is of concern to the society

Government invests heavily in education
It is necessary to know what to educate

Students wish to know what are they getting trained for

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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It is necessary to know what to educate
1 point
We need a model for teaching because

AICTE requires that every teacher follow a model of teaching of his/her choice
It helps teachers to plan learning experiences of students
It enables students learn better

There are so many models of teaching available in the literature

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It helps teachers to plan learning experiences of students

Week 2 Assignment 2
PEOs (Program Educational Objectives) must be written following these two

Taking approval from the Principal

Taking approval from the Management
Mission of the Department

An established process

Accepted Answers:
Mission of the Department
An established process
1 point
Complex engineering activities are characterized by two of the following

Require resolution of many compatible issues

Use of diverse resources
Require considerable planning

Can extend beyond previous experiences

Accepted Answers:
Use of diverse resources
Can extend beyond previous experiences
1 point
PO6-PO12 are labelled as Professional Outcomes because

They are prerequisites to engineering science courses

Their attainment helps students in getting better grades
Attainment of these seven outcomes is required by all engineers

Their attainment is a prerequisite to electives courses

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Attainment of these seven outcomes is required by all engineers
1 point
PO12 is “Recognize the need for and have the preparation and ability to engage in
independent and life-long learning (LLL) in the broadest context of technological
change.” PO12 is important because

Most of the engineering activities are done in project mode.

An engineer has to deal with continuous change in his life and practice.
An engineer is required to prepare a marketing brief on products

All students have to do a final year project.

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An engineer has to deal with continuous change in his life and practice.
1 point
Identify two statements from the following which are NOT PSOs

Design, develop, and test circuits, using currently available electronic

components, that perform analog and digital signal processing functions.
Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals to the
solution of problems of computer science and engineering
Survey, map and plan layouts for buildings, structures and alignments for canals
and roads

Understand the role of fluid mechanics in civil engineering.

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Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals to the
solution of problems of computer science and engineering
Understand the role of fluid mechanics in civil engineering.
1 point
Identify two statements from the following which are NOT PSOs

Understand the role of fluid mechanics in civil engineering

Develop application software that would perform tasks related to Information
Management and Mobiles.
 Apply the knowledge of linear algebra, electronics, and social science to the
solution of problems of computer science and engineering

Develop IT systems that would perform tasks related to E-governance and/or

Health Care Management

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Understand the role of fluid mechanics in civil engineering
Apply the knowledge of linear algebra, electronics, and social science to the solution
of problems of computer science and engineering
1 point
All taxonomies of learning are attempts to understand

How can the students learn well

The conditions under which the students are not likely to learn well
The methods by which teacher can instruct well

The structure of the cognitive processes involved in learning

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The structure of the cognitive processes involved in learning
1 point
The psychomotor domain involves manipulative or _______ skills.

musical
acting
physical
modelling

debating

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physical
1 point
These two are subprocesses of "Remember" cognitive process

Recognize
Recall
Summarize

Execute

Accepted Answers:
Recognize
Recall
1 point
Identify the action verbs that represent the activities of cognitive process
"Understand".

Calculate
 Categorize
Extrapolate

Determine

Accepted Answers:
Categorize
Extrapolate

Week 3 Assignment 3
1 point
Identify two action verbs that represent Analyze cognitive process from the following

Differentiate
Execute
Deconstruct

Infer

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Differentiate
Deconstruct
1 point
Two of the following are the subprocesses of "Evaluate" cognitive process

Check
Differentiate
Critique

Execute

Accepted Answers:
Check
Critique
1 point
To what category of knowledge does the element "Resistivity of copper at 20OC is 16.8
nWm" belong to

Factual
Conceptual
Procedural
Metacognitive

All of these

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Factual
1 point
Procedural knowledge includes knowing procedures, techniques, and methods as well
as the criteria for using them

True

false

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True
1 point
Engineering is the process of

Applying science
Investigation of how to solve technical and socio-technical problems
Selecting the phenomena for investigation

Establishing the validity of results

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Investigation of how to solve technical and socio-technical problems
1 point
"To design a device embodying a given operational principle and normal configuration,
the designer must have, at some point, specific requirements in terms of hardware" is
the goal of

Fundamental design concepts

Criteria and specifications
Practical considerations

Design instrumentalities

Accepted Answers:
Criteria and specifications
1 point
The cell labelled as (5, 6) in Revised Bloom-Vincenti Taxonomy table represents

"Apply-Design Instrumentalities" Outcome/ Assessment/Activity

"Create-Procedure" Outcome/Assessment/Activity
"Analyze-Fundamental Design Principles" Outcome/ Assessment/Activity

"Evaluate-Criteria and Specifications" Outcome/ Assessment/Activity

Accepted Answers:
"Evaluate-Criteria and Specifications" Outcome/ Assessment/Activity
1 point
Two of the following are non-cognitive factors

Task Execution
Perseverance
Judging
 Confidence

Accepted Answers:
Perseverance
Confidence
1 point
Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate and Create processes belong to

Cognitive Domain
Affective Domain
Psychomotor Domain

None of these

Accepted Answers:
Cognitive Domain
1 point
What are the relationships among the three domains (cognitive, affective and
psychomotor) of learning in higher education programs?

The three domains are independent.

Cognitive domain learning is the most dominant with considerable influence from
affective domain
Affective domain is the most important among the three domains

Cognitive domain is the most important with marginal influence from the
psychomotor domain.

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Cognitive domain learning is the most dominant with considerable influence from
affective domain

Week 4 Assignment 4
A well-written course outcome will have these features

Can be measured by an assignment, test, project, or examination

Never begins with vague verbs such as ‘know’ and ‘appreciate’
Is free of ambiguous words and phrases, acronyms and industry specific jargon

All of these

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All of these
Is it necessary to set the targets for all POs at similar levels?

Yes, it is necessary to get accredited by NBA

Yes, all POs need not be addressed to the same level
 No, as no program can address all POs equally

Yes, it is possible to address all POs equally with effort

Accepted Answers:
No, as no program can address all POs equally

Common Errors in Writing Learning Outcomes

not observable
dependent on the way the material is taught
dependent on the context in which it is taught
too specific

All of these

Accepted Answers:
All of these
Identify two Dos from the following in writing COs

Make the CO as general as possible

Use at least two action verbs with each CO
Make the CO statements as detailed as possible and measurable

Do not use words including ‘like’, ‘such as’, ‘different’, ‘various’ ‘etc.’ with respect
to knowledge elements.

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Make the CO statements as detailed as possible and measurable
Do not use words including ‘like’, ‘such as’, ‘different’, ‘various’ ‘etc.’ with respect to
knowledge elements.
Which two of the following are items in the Check List for writing COs?

Does the CO end with an action verb?

Is the CO stated in terms of student performance?
Does the CO include conditions under which it is not attainable?

Is the CO stated at the proper level of generality?

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Is the CO stated in terms of student performance?
Is the CO stated at the proper level of generality?
Why should a CO be tagged with the number of class sessions?

The number of class sessions for all COs should add up to the number of hours
available for the course in a semester
It helps in planning the instruction for the CO
It helps the teacher to know the number of lectures he/she has to deliver
 It helps in understanding the scope of the CO and the strength to which the
related POs are addressed

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It helps in understanding the scope of the CO and the strength to which the related
POs are addressed
The CO ‘Draw the profile of the cam for a desired follower motion’ addresses these
two knowledge categories.

Conceptual
Procedural
Design Instrumentalities

Criteria and Specifications

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Procedural Criteria and Specifications
How is direct attainment of COs computed?

Through the performance of students in CIE

Through the performance of students in CIE and SEE
Through the performance of students in SEE

Through the semester end student surveys

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Through the performance of students in CIE and SEE

Assessment plan is defining

The number of questions to be asked for each CO in all assessment instruments

The expected class average performance in Semester End Examination (SEE)
The expected class average performance in Continuous Internal Evaluation (CIE)

The weightage for each CO in all the assessment instruments of CIE

Accepted Answers:
The weightage for each CO in all the assessment instruments of CIE
Attainment of a PO is considered to be ‘one’

If the class average marks in the COs associated with that PO is 100%
If the PO is addressed at the level of 3 and class average marks in the COs
associated with that PO is 100%
If the strength to which a PO is addressed is 3

If the targets set for all COs are met.

Accepted Answers:
If the PO is addressed at the level of 3 and class average marks in the COs associated
with that PO is 100%