The Institute switched over to Outcome Based Education (OBE) in 2016 to impart education through student centric approach, to increase the students’ employability and follow outcome oriented teaching learning process. Programme Outcomes (POs), Programme Specific Outcomes (PSOs), and Course Outcomes (COs) have been formulated for all the UG and PG programs. Programme Outcomes (POs) represent the graduate attributes formulated as per Washington Accord and adopted by National Board of Accreditation. Programme Specific Outcomes (PSOs) are specifically defined outcomes of the programme which the graduates have to acquire by the end of the programme. Program Outcomes (POs), Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs) of all the UG and PG Programmes have been disseminated to the stake holders as follows:
Process of CO formation:
Process of PO formation:
These COs are discussed and finalized in the Board of Studies (BOS) of the respective programmes. Correlation matrices are generated to link Courses with their outcomes, POs and PSOs. These matrices specify the correlation in terms of high, medium and low (3, 2 and 1 respectively) indicating the levels. The average mapping of Program outcomes for the given program is obtained by averaging the levels of mapping for each of the courses. Similarly the averaging is done for Program specific outcomes as well.
At Guru Nanak Instiutte of technology, the departments have prepared the curriculum by considering the POs of the corresponding program to certify mapping of all POs of the curriculum .
The COs of each course have structured and mapped with corresponding POs .
To implement the Outcome Based Education in the Institiute, the attainment of Course Outcome(CO) is evaluated through Direct and Indirect assessment tools. The result of attainment of CO is used to evaluate the attainment of Programme Outcome(PO) and Program Specific Outcome(PSO).
CO Assessment Processes:
Department collects and prepares data to evaluate the attainment of Course Outcomes (COs).
Followings are the methods to find attainment of the COs:
Student’s knowledge and skills from their performance in the
These methods suggest to verify that : what students know and provide durable evidence of student learning.
CO attainment has been measured based on Cumulative Internal Examinations and end semesterexamination.Assessment of attainment for PO and PSO are carried out through Direct method andIndirectmethod.
Direct method is obtained through –
Indirect method is obtained through various surveys as follows:
The questions mentioned in the surveys are mapped to the POs and PSOs (on the scale of 1 to 3)
The responses and the mappings are used for the indirect computation of PO & PSO attainment
Measuring CO attainment through Cumulative Internal Examinations (CIE)
CO attainments are measured considering assignments, class test through CIE.
CO attainment is obtained through Cumulative Internal Examination (CIE) and Semester End Examination (SEE).
Attainment Level of courses is set as below by the program:
Target level 1: 50% students must score 60% and above
Target level 2: 70% students must score 60% and above
Target level 3: 80% students must score 60% and above
Overall CO attainment is obtained considering 40% credit from CIE and 60% from SEE.ie,
Overall CO attainment=40% credit from CIE + 60% from SEE.
Overall PO & PSO attainment:
The overall PO & PSO attainment computation is done by taking sum of 80% of direct attainment and 20% of indirect attainment for each programme.
Overall PO attainment = (80% of Direct attainment) + (20% of Indirect Attainment)
The survey asks former students about their employment and further education, perceptions of institutional emphases, estimated gains in knowledge and skills, involvement as undergraduate students, and continuing involvement with the Institute. This is helpful to see the attainment of the POs.
Employer surveys are conducted for finding out whether the knowledge, skill and attitude learned from this institution is adequately satisfying their expectation or not.
Exit student survey is important to understand the impact of training/knowledge they have gathered throughout graduation years and based on its strength and weakness of various value added courses, pre-placement training and other issues are considered.
