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A Case Study: Improved Learning through Course Assessment

H. R. Bhagyalakshmi *, D. Seshachalam , D. Ajay Kumar

Affiliations

  • Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, B M S College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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Abstract


The type of assessment tools used to evaluate the learning reflects effective teaching. So teachers and many educators have begun to think innovative assessment methods to promote student learning. It is indeed a great challenge for teachers and educators to create a workplace with new ways to solve problems, new ways to gain various skills. The assessments of students in a course enable to find whether they are able to transfer the course knowledge to problem solving with good analytical skills and draw conclusions to real world problems. The outcome based education is making this possible through course assessment.

Keywords

Course Assessment, Analytical Skills, Performance, Learning Graduate Attributes, Outcome Based Education.

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