Student Learning Outcomes : Gandhian way

Dr. PRASAD Mumbai , INDIA

Conventional Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) : What is wrong with them !

• Misunderstood• Wrong Measures• Wasteful Assessment • Ineffective Learning

INEFFECTIVE SLOs : Select Examples.. !

• Students will be able to name major theorists and to define important concepts in Sociology • Students will use research methods to design and carry out research

projects• Students will correctly apply appropriate statistical tests for analysis of

data• Articulate and apply sociological imagination to make sense of people’

s situations• Identify situations of inequality and describe implications of potential

actions (Source: Assessment Quickies #2.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0DeysBX7M)

Why and How ‘SLO’ is INEFFECTIVE ?

“ SLO : A student is be able to name major theorists and to define important concepts in Sociology … (Source: Assessment Quickies #2.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0DeysBX7M)

This SLO is…………………• Not Direct, hence need to be ‘ assessed ‘ !• This outcome is only a conjecture . . . Yet to be proved ! !• SLO has NO significant use to the student learner ! ! !

Out come means . .Something that

C O M E O U T ! !

Activity & what comes out !

• Bowling• Batting • Eating • Driving• Cooking• Cleaning

•Learning

- Wickets- Runs- Gaining Strength- Distance Covered- Dishes made- Hygiene

- ?

EFFECTIVE SLOs . . . are

• OUTCOMES, RESULTS – Which are Direct, Visible, and Crystal Clear to naked eyes • Need NO special assessment / measurement • ‘Pooled’, ‘Collected ‘and ‘ Counted ‘.• Significant ONE ( NOT many, insignificant ones )• ‘SMART’ ones• Quite useful. Hence Stake holders seek them and love them

Effective Learning is Leads to

Effective outcomes

Due to Consciously

chosen appropriate

activity

Learning • Effective

Learning will have

Outcome• Effective outcomes

Activity• due to consciously chosen appropriate activity

Learning • Effective

Learning is

Outcome• Self Reliance

Activity • Practical

learning

Gandhian Learning Model

Gandhian approach to Effective Learning

• Learning is considered EFFECTIVE only when it help the student to achieve Self reliance as the goal• Effective Learning is …. Choosing the learning activity which enables

the student learner to achieve ‘Self Reliance’ as part of curricular learning, hence deemed most appropriate• Self Reliance and Effective Learning are two sides of the same coin,

mutually complementing, having ‘unison’ effect.• Effective Learning is a matter of D E S I G N and followed by E X E C U T

I O N

Student Learning Outcomes : Gandhian Model• Gandhian Learning outcome is… Achieving Self Reliance ( 1 ) , on daily basis ( 2 ) through application of ( 3 ) everyday learning ( 4 ) by the learner ( 5 ).• Outcome of Self Reliance is Direct, Visible, and Crystal Clear to naked

eyes ( Need NO assessment ) • SMART in nature, Quite useful and students love it• Outcome is ‘Pooled’, and ‘ Counted ‘, • One Single outcome – But Substantially Significant

Gandhian Learning @ NITIE Mumbai : A Case • NITIE Mumbai believes in Gandhian Learning and committed to it . • NITIE Mumbai has developed and implemented several of the

pedagogical innovations on the lines of Gandhian Learning model. • They include - Maha Mandi (

http://www.nitie.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=508&Itemid=422&lang=en ),

Shanti Eva Jayate, (http://sej2010.p4pune.com/)

Gandhi Giri, Student Enterprises

Gandhian Learning @ NITIE Mumbai VISION :

Sarva Vidya Sankalp Globe without Uneducated Education for one and all

MISSION: • Practice of Self Reliant

( Physical, Financial, and Psychological ) model of Learning

Gandhian Learning @ NITIE Mumbai • Students earn their daily bread

themselves through applying their day’s learning ( Har Vidhyarthi, Har Dhin, Aapna Padhai se ..

Roj roti…, Kamayenge )

• Think.. Sell.. Earn ( Socho.. Becho.. Seekho.. )

• Learning by Earning.. ( Kamaise.. Padhai..)

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