STUDENT GRADING IN HIGHER EDUCATION FOR COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION SYSTEM

Autor: P. S. Aithal, M, Suresh Kumar P.
Rok vydání: 2022
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7392649
Popis: Higher Education aims to produce quality professionals who would be economically productive and contribute to the society. Here comes the question how fit are they ? Are our passing out graduates ready to take up and perform jobs successfully? Is the present education equipping them for that ? What should be the assessment of a graduate be based on? Higher education aims to impart competency to the learners and generally the presumption is that those who undergo higher education have acquired desired level of competence. Examination and assessment are a key indicator for measuring performance of a graduate in the existing credit based education system. The credit based system in higher education is founded on the assumption that grades which a student has secured by way of assessment and evaluation speak what a student as earned by way of education. But the question is how to measure the competency among the graduates who pass out. Various indicators are available in competency based education system (CBES), most important among them is employability. Employability is the capacity to take up and perform job independently with relative ease, although this is something that is usually subject to decision of the employer and therefore difficult to set a bench mark. Our competency measurement model suggests various performance indicators which could directly give a quantifiable idea to judge how successful a person would be in a given job. This paper attempts to outline the major factors contributing to competency, their objectives and outcome. An attempt has also been made to identify such factors which contribute to predict performance in a job situation by judging competency level performance indicators. The interventional strategies for higher education institution is also outlined here.
Databáze: OpenAIRE