NET PAPER 1-GENERAL PAPER ON TEACHING AND RESEARCH APTITUDE (SYLLABUS)

Unit-I Teaching Aptitude

· Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding and Reflective), Characteristics and basic requirements.

· Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional and Cognitive), Individual differences.

· Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and Institution.

· Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher centred vs. Learner centred methods; Off-line vs. On-line methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).
· Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern and ICT based.

· Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher education, Computer based testing, Innovations in evaluation systems.

Unit-II Research Aptitude

· Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Post- positivistic approach to research.

· Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative and Quantitative methods.

· Steps of Research.

· Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing.

· Application of ICT in research.

· Research ethics.

Unit-III Comprehension

· A passage of text be given. Questions be asked from the passage to be answered.

Unit-IV Communication

· Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of communication.

· Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group communications, Classroom communication.

· Barriers to effective communication.

· Mass-Media and Society.

Unit-V Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude

· Types of reasoning.

· Number series, Letter series, Codes and Relationships.

· Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages etc.).

Unit-VI Logical Reasoning

· Understanding the structure of arguments: argument forms, structure of categorical propositions, Mood and Figure, Formal and Informal fallacies, Uses of language, Connotations and denotations of terms, Classical square of opposition.

· Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning.

· Analogies.

· Venn diagram: Simple and multiple use for establishing validity of arguments.

· Indian Logic: Means of knowledge.

· Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication) and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension).

· Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference).

Unit-VII Data Interpretation

· Sources, acquisition and classification of Data.

· Quantitative and Qualitative Data.

· Graphical representation (Bar-chart, Histograms, Pie-chart, Table-chart and Line-chart) and mapping of Data.

· Data Interpretation.

· Data and Governance.

Unit-VIII Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

· ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.

· Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing.

· Digital initiatives in higher education.

· ICT and Governance.

Unit-IX People, Development and Environment

· Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals.

· Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on environment.

· Environmental issues: Local, Regional and Global; Air pollution, Water pollution, Soil pollution, Noise pollution, Waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), Climate change and its Socio-Economic and Political dimensions.

· Impacts of pollutants on human health.

· Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests.

· Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies.

· Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International agreements/efforts -Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance.

Unit-X Higher Education System

· Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India.

· Evolution of higher learning and research in Post Independence India.

· Oriental, Conventional and Non-conventional learning programmes in India.

· Professional, Technical and Skill Based education.

· Value education and environmental education.

· Policies, Governance, and Administration.

 
NOTE: (i) Five questions each carrying 2 marks are to be set from each

Module.

(ii) Whenever graphical/pictorial question(s) are set for sighted candidates, a passage followed by equal number of questions and weightage be set for visually impaired candidates.