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Research Issues and Concerns
D r. N . A s o k a n
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nt va s o k a n @ g m a i l . c o m
Outline • Purpose
• Definit ion
• I ssues Related to Research
• I ssues re lated to
Guide – Student Relat ionship
• I ssues Related to Research scholars
• Class Room Research
• Research Outcomes from Books
Why do I want to do Research?
Beyond Ph.D & Making Money
To Solve Every Day Problems
To Prove to Every other Person
Research- Definition
To solve the unknown problem,
logical ly,
sc ientif ical ly and
precisely
with document evidence
Assume Nothing, Question Everything
Start Thinking, Learn the Truth
Issues Related to
Research
Issues Related to Research
• Finance (Source)
• University
• Identifying the Guide
• Identifying the Topic
Finance• Part Time / Full Time
• Semester Fees
• DC Meeting
• Course Work
• Fees to Guide
• Attending Conferences
• Paper Presentation
• Purchase of original research papers / Books / Articles / stationery
• A4 sheets
• Printer / Printout
• Lunch / Dinner
• Travelling Expenses
• Compliments
• Viva-Voice
• Thesis Binding
Finance
Work - Finance
• Cost of Experiment
• Research materials
• Fabrication cost
• Testing cost
• Simulation S/W
When one’s working, one works between absolute Confidence and absolute Doubt
University• Regulations
• Time Limit
• Entrance Exams /
Interview
• Admission
• Registration
• Continuous Report to University
• N I T Trichy
• Anna University
• Deemed University
Identifying the Guide
• UGC Regulations
• University approved
• Internal / External Guide – CECRI / IGCAR
• Area of Interest with proven track record of paper publications / similar work
• Through previous research scholars
• Open ad. - Entrance Exam – InterviewDr. Asokan
Dr. RobinsonDr. Rameela
Dr. Ramaswamy
Identifying the Topic
• General to very Narrow field / topic
• Guide Specialization
• Guide’s other students area of work
• Your own area of interest
EEE
Dr. Rameela, KLN, Madurai
• M.E., Power Electronics
• Converters
• Regulators, Rectifiers, Inverters and Choppers
• Rectifiers, Inverters
• Adjustable Speed Drive – 3 phase
• Constant Torque – Motor Speed
Guide, TCE, Madurai
• Power Quality
• Voltage Sage
• Voltage Swell
Performance Improvement of an adjustable speed three phase motor drive under various
power quality issues
ECE
Dr. Robinson ECE, Mount Zion
• M.E Optical Communication
• Device Miniaturization
• Optical Network
• Performance Improvement
• Plane wave Technique
• Optical MEMS Tech.
• Photonic Crystal Tech –Optical Filter
Guide, Pondicherry University
• Filters
Design and analysis of 2D Photonic Crystal Base Optical Filter
Engineering Education
Dr. Asokan
• M.E Material Science
• Curriculum & Syllabus
• Teaching Learning
• Assessing
Guide, NITTTR
• Curriculum Evaluation
Analysis of Effectiveness of Implementation of Physics Curriculum ofB.E Programmes of Engineering Colleges in Tamil Nadu
Issues related
toGuide – Student Relationship
Guide – Student RelationshipGuide Student
MALE MALE
FEMALE FEMALE
MALE FEMALE
FEMALE MALE
Guide Student
Teacher Student
Friend Friend
Teacher Teacher
Student Student
Outline Purpose
Definit ion
I ssues Related to Research
I ssues re lated to
Guide – Student Relat ionship
• I ssues Related to Research scholars
• Class Room Research
• Research Outcomes from Books
Issues relatedto
Research Scholars
Requisite Characteristics
• Acquire Knowledge
• Develop Skills
• Refine Talent
• Change Belief, Thought and Assumption
• Spread Networking
• Don’t stop asking Questions
Acquiring Knowledge
• Factual Knowledge
• Conceptual Knowledge
• Procedural Knowledge
• Meta cognitive knowledge
Problem Solving Skills• Ability to define the
problem
• Ability to change asituation from its givenstate into a goal state.
• Ability to re-start fromthe beginning, often
• Ability to change yourhabits
Life Long Learner
• The willingness to act towards what you want, to risk, to fail
• Willingness to practice
• Self discipline
• Comfort with repetitiveness
• If required, comfort with being alone
Live till old, Learn till you live
Self Discipline
Self Discipline is conscious
practice of
controls, habits and restraints,
imposed by one self and
demanded by the profession
Recurring pattern of
thought,
feeling,
action or
behaviour
that can be productively
applied
Examples: Instinctively inquisitive ,
Competitive, Charming, PersistentNervousness?
Along with What If?
Skill determine
if you
can do something
Talent reveals something more important:
how well and
how often you do it
Traces of Talents
• Spontaneous,
• Top-of-the mind reactions
• Reactions under extreme stress
• Rapid Learning
• Satisfactions
SEE
DOGET
AttitudesBehaviorsMethodsTechniques
BeliefsThoughtsAssumptions
Results
If you want to change the Fruit, Change the Root
Change in here,no use
Basically change here,to get desired result
Beliefs change gradually as we accumulate new experiences (Variety of different activities)
Re-Think
Don’t Stop Asking Questions
• Do we have the right questions?
• How can we do what we are already doing even
better?
• What is the worst that can possibly happen?
• How things are working?
• What can go wrong?
W h a t i f ? ,W h a t n e x t ?
Class Room Research
Best Practices in Technical Education
Case Study:
BY
Dr. N. Asokan ,
N. Meenakshi , Lecturer(IT)
Best Practices
1. Pre-requisite knowledge
2. Mapping of five units
3. Mapping with other subjects
4. Delivering pre-requisite knowledge
5. Specific instructional objectives in accordance with Bloom’s revised taxonomy
6. Lesson plan
7. Teaching learning process
8. Evaluation at the end of the semester in accordance with Bloom’s revised taxonomy
9. Mapping of objectives, teaching learning process and assessment in the Bloom’s revised taxonomy table.
KNOWLEDGE
DIMENSION
THE COGNITIVE PROCESS DIMENSION
1.
REMEMBER
2.
UNDERSTAND
3.
APPLY
4.
ANALYZE
5.
EVALUATE
6.
CREATE
A.
FACTUAL
KNOWLEDGE
B.
CONCEPTUAL
KNOWLEDGE
C.
PROCEDURAL
KNOWLEDGE
D.
META-
COGNITIVE
KNOWLEDGE
Taxonomy Table
Department/Acad
emic year
No of Students subject
IT / 2009-2010 60 User Interface
Design
Sample
KNOWLEDGE
DIMENSION
THE COGNITIVE PROCESS DIMENSION
1.
REMEMBER
2.
UNDERSTAND
3.
APPLY
4.
ANALYZE
5.
EVALUATE
6.
CREATE
A.
FACTUAL
KNOWLEDGE
10 activities
B.
CONCEPTUAL
KNOWLEDGE
4 activities
1.To explain how
to choose the
image
2. To explain
multimedia,
3. To explain
types of errors,
4. To explain
coloring
C.
PROCEDURAL
KNOWLEDGE
To apply the
designing
concepts to
create a web
page
D.
META-
COGNITIVE
KNOWLEDGE
Mapping of “To apply the designing concepts to create a web page”
Objective, Teaching Learning Process (activities) and Assessment
Table of Specifications
UNIT
No.of
objectives
pertaining
to Factual
Knowledge/
Remember
No.of
Questions
No.of
objectives
pertaining
Conceptual
Knowledge/
Understand
No.of
Questions
No.of
objectives
pertaining
Procedural
Knowledge/
Apply
No.of
Questions
Total No.of
Objectives
in Interface
Design
subject
Total No.of
Questions
selected for
End
semester
exam.
1 3 2 7 2 0 0 10 4
2 10 2 11 2 0 0 21 4
3 6 2 8 1 4 1 18 4
4 4 2 8 2 0 0 12 4
5 3 4 6 1 5 1 14 6
Total 26 12 40 8 9 2 75 22
KNOWLEDGE
DIMENSION
THE COGNITIVE PROCESS DIMENSION
1.
REMEMBER
2.
UNDERSTAND
3.
APPLY
4.
ANALYZE
5.
EVALUATE
6.
CREATE
A.
FACTUAL
KNOWLEDGE
26 Objectives
26 Activities
12 Questions
18.3% mastered
B. CONCEPTUAL
KNOWLEDGE
40 Objectives
40 Activities
8 Questions
13% mastered
C. PROCEDURAL
KNOWLEDGE
9 Objectives
9Activities
2 Questions
8% mastered
D.
META-
COGNITIVE
KNOWLEDGE
Mapping of “User Interface Design” subject Objective, Teaching Learning Process (activities) and Assessment
Findings
1. There are 26 objectives pertaining to FactualKnowledge, out which 12 objectives are used forevaluation of students at the end of the semester.
2. 11 out of 60 students (remembered) i.e. 18.30%of students correctly answered all the 12objectives
3. 21 out of 60 students (remembered) i.e.,35% ofstudents correctly answered 50 % of theobjectives.
(contd….)
4. There are 40 objectives pertaining to Conceptuall Knowledge, out which 8 objectives are used forevaluation of students at the end of thesemester.
5. 8 out of 60 students (understood) i.e.,13% ofstudents correctly answered these objectives.
6. 24 out of 60 students (understood) i.e.,40 % ofstudents correctly answered 50 % of theobjectives.
(contd…)
7. There are 9 objectives pertaining to ProceduralKnowledge.
8. 2 objectives are used for evaluation of students at theend of the semester. 5 out of 60 students (able to applythe factual and conceptual knowledge in a given situation)i.e.,8% of students correctly answered these objectives.
9. 11 out of 60 students (able to apply the factual andconceptual knowledge in a given situation) i.e.,18.30% ofstudents correctly answered 50 % of the objectives.
Conclusion
• If all the objectives, activities and assessment areplaced in the taxonomy table, then it helps us to"understand about understanding".
• The "miss-alignments" can be identified with the helpof this taxonomy table.
• By examining the taxonomy table the teacher caneasily identify areas of knowledge, or levels of thecognitive domain, that has not been covered by thelearning activities.
Outline Purpose
Definit ion
I ssues Related to Research
I ssues re lated to
Guide – Student Relat ionship
I ssues Related to Personal Mastery
Class Room Research
• Research Outcomes from Books
Research Outcomes from
Books
O u t l i e r s
• 10,000 hrs rule
• Billionaires born in 1954 or 1955
• 3000 hrs / year Annual workload of Rice farmer in Asia
Maths - Success
Good at Maths is an innate ability
Master Maths, if you are willing to try
Maths-Success = f (Persistence & Doggedness)
Willingness to work hard for 22 minutes to make sense of something that most people would
give up on after 30seconds
Cheating (Getting More for Less) school Teachers in Chicago
• What might a cheating teacher’s class room look like?
• What are the characteristics of a cheating teacher?
• Drunk & Drive /
• Drunk & Walk
What makes Perfect Parent?
• Who are you? Who you are?
• Whom you married?
• What kind of life you lead?
• If you are smart, hard working, well educated,well paid, and married to someone equallyfortunate, then your children are more likelyto succeed
But it isn’t so much a matter of what you do as a parent;
it is who you are
Naming the Children
Parents use a name to signal
“their own expectations”
of how successful their children will be
Blink• When we are making a
decision of minorimportance, weconsider all the pro andcons.
• In vital matters such asmarriage or profession,decision should comefrom somewhere withinourselves.
• In the importantdecisions of personallife, we should begoverned by the deepinner needs of ournature (who I am?)
What the Dog Saw?
• Bad Teacher = One Year = students learn 50% worth of material
• Good Teacher = One Year = students learn 150% worth of material
• Your child is actually better off in a bad school with an Excellent Teacher than in an Excellent School with a Bad Teacher
• Teacher effects more stronger than class-size effect
• Research Issuesin
Different Domains
• Marriage Issuesin
Different Roles
• Identifying the Groom / Bride
• Husband/Wife –In-laws Relationships
• Finance to lead life
• Lessons from other couples
Five Units of Report
1. Introduction
–Objectives / Research Questions
2. Review of Literature
3. Experiment Description and Observation
4. Analysis, Interpretation and Discussion
5. Results and Conclusion
1. Introduction
– Objectives / Research Questions
If the guide
do not possess
the requisite characteristics?
Guide point of
View
Purpose
Definit ion
I ssues Related to Research
I ssues re lated to
Guide – Student Relat ionship
I ssues Related to Research Scholars
Class Room Research
Research Outcomes from Books
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