ASSIGNMENT QUESTION FOR MA 4 th SEMESTER (2014-2015) EDUCATION TRIPURA UNIVERSITY
IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS 1. Learners are required to prepare 4 (four) Assignments, 1 (one) each from the 4 (four) papers of the concerned subject and submit the same within the due date (03/05/2015). 2. Learners/Students must use only A4 size paper for writing Assignments and tie all pages carefully. 3. On the Cover Page, the following information shall have to be provided: Name : Enrolment No. : Programme : Subject : Paper : Assignment No. : Address : Contact No. : Signature with Date 4. While writing an Assignment, a margin of 4 cm should be kept on the left side of each A4 size paper. A gap of 4 cm should also be kept in between two answers. 5. Learners/Students are asked to write Assignments in their own hand writing and own language. They shall not print or type any answer. 6. Copying directly from course materials is strictly prohibited. 7. Copying from the Response Sheets of other Candidates will be treated as adoption of malpractice. Copying from any other source or by any means is strictly prohibited. Any two or more Assignments of two or more students with same contents and written in same language shall be liable to cancellation and the students will be treated as failed for that particular paper (s). Such students shall not be allowed to sit for the Semester End Examination/Year End Examination. 8. Each Assignment must be written separately. Students/Learners must not mix up Assignments. 9. Worked out Assignments shall have to be submitted in the Assignment Section of the Directorate of Distance Education, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar, Pin-799022, Tripura Within Due Date (03/05/2015).
SUBJECT: EDUCATION; ED-401 (13 TH PAPER) ASSIGNMENT NO. 01 a) Give an idea of curriculum. b) What do you mean by curriculum implementation? 2. What are the different components of curriculum? Why are they necessary for curriculum planning? 3. Discuss in detail the philosophical and sociological bases of curriculum. 4. Indicate the major types of curriculum. Delineate critically the activity centered design of curriculum. 5. How do the learning theories influence curriculum development? How is curriculum development different from curriculum studies? 6. Discuss the needs and advantages of core curriculum. 7. What are the formative and summative evaluations? Explain the rotes of these two processes in evaluating curriculum. 8. What is the relation between the curriculum and the aims of education? 9. Can education be called a system? What is the basic concept of systems approach of curriculum designing? 10. Describe the chief sources of objectives of curriculum construction. 11. What is formative evaluation? Indicate its importance and problems. 12. Discuss briefly the recommendations of Kothari Commission about curriculum of H.S. (+2) stage.
SUBJECT: EDUCATION; ED-402 (14 TH PAPER) ASSIGNMENT NO. 02 a) What is meant by Personal contact Programme (PCP)? b) What is quality assurance in distance education? 2. What is distance education? State the historical perspectives of distance education in India. 3. State the micro and macro issues of distance education. 4. What are the characteristic features of distance education? Why are study materials of distance education called self learning materials? 5. Define information and communication technology. Show how information and communication technology influenced the area of distance education in India. 6. What is meant by students support service in distance education? What are the needs and benefits of students support services in distance education? 7. Critically analysis the role of distance education in respect of women and deprived community in India. 8. Mention the different strategies may be adopted for quality assurance in distance education. 9. What steps are to be followed for the development of staff in distance education system? 10. Define counseling. Mention the reasons why counseling in necessary in distance education. 11. Discuss in brief the origin and objectives of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). 12. Discuss the organizational structure and instructional system of IGNOU. 13. State the funding arrangement and innovative features of NIOS.
SUBJECT: EDUCATION; ED-403 (15 TH PAPER) ASSIGNMENT NO. 03 a) What is Rural education? b) Mention two aims of population education. 2. Give a concept of social education. Discuss in brief the present condition of social education in India. 3. Explain the social problems of women education in our country and their solutions. 4. Write down the extra facilities that the students of urban area can avail with respect to the students of the rural area of Tripura. 5. What is meant by equality of educational opportunity write down the main causes of in equality of educational opportunity? 6. What do you mean by vocationalisation? Discuss the present condition of vocational education in India. 7. What do you mean by wastage and stagnation? Mention the causes of stagnation. 8. Discuss in brief the present condition of Environmental education in India. What are the programmes being taken by the Govt. of India to in calcite environmental education in students. 9. Nan ate the different steps taken by the Govt. of India to solve the unemployment problems. 10. Discuss in brief merits and demerits of privatization. 11. Explain about the Language problems in higher education of Tripura. 12. Mention the different crisis of value education. Distance how education can help to solve the problems related to value oriented education. 13. Mention the defects of present system of examination and state how these can be removed.
SUBJECT: EDUCATION; ED-404 (A) Special Paper (16 TH PAPER-Mental Health & Hygiene) ASSIGNMENT NO. 04 a) What do you mean by mental health? b) What do you mean by drug addiction? 2. Discuss the concept of mental health in relation to Education? 3. Explain the concept of mental hygiene. 4. Explain the problematic behaviour of child with example. 5. How you will identify a mentally healthy person? 6. What are the causes and symptoms of Psychoses? 7. Discuss different types of maladjustment. 8. Write different approaches of Psychotherapies. 9. Give a general outline of mental disorder. 10. Give a brief account of behaviour therapies. 11. How would you establish such a guidance clinic in a school complex? 12. Discuss the principle of good mental health. 13. Write down the role of home in maintaining good mental health.
SUBJECT: EDUCATION; ED-404 (B) Special Paper (16 TH PAPER-Teacher Education) ASSIGNMENT NO. 04 a) What do you mean by Teacher Education? b) What is integrated Teacher Education? 2. Describe the recommendations of wood s Dispatch regarding teacher Education. 3. Critically examine the status of teacher Education in colonial rule. 4. How the teacher Education has changed after the Indian independence. 5. Identify the basic difference between pre-service and in-service training. How both these type of training is significant in teacher education? 6. What are the different types of in-service training? Write down different models of inservice training. 7. Explain the concept of comprehensive teacher education. Why this kind of concept has evolved? 8. Write down the objectives and process of micro teaching and simulated teaching? 9. How you can evaluate practice teaching? 10. How Programmed learning can be helpful in self learning? 11. Write down the responsibilities of teacher organizations. 12. How you can evaluate the performance of a teacher? 13. Write down the trends of Research in Teacher Education in India.