Assignment as teaching aid
- 1. Assignment as Teaching Aid Presented by: Parvindar Chaudhary Department of EE MONAD University Hapur
- 2. INTRODUCTION Assignments is the most common way in which instructors give students an opportunity to develop, apply and demonstrate new knowledge. These assignments can take many forms: short papers, research papers, problem sets, lab reports, and so forth. Such assignments are also an important means of summative assessment, providing us with grades that we hope reflect students’ level of effort and learning.
- 3. Aim of Assignment You should be clear and specific with students about what your goals and expectations from each assignment. The nature and construction of each assignment should reflect the learning goals you articulated when you created the course. The assignments you create for students should be challenging but not intimidating or overwhelming.
- 4. Objectives of Assignment It provides good training for information seeking. It inculcates the self learning attitude among the students. It provides information analysis and research attitude to the learners. It develops the learning experiences from various sources.
- 5. Types of Assignments Home Assignments: The assignments given by the teacher is completed by the students in their home with the help of reference books and instructions / information provided by the teacher. College Assignments: The teacher interrogates some questions regarding the experiment or tasks. The students have to find the answer with the help of text books and library books and report it in written form.
- 6. Advantages of assignment method Provides opportunity in self learning for the students Assignment provides sufficient flexibility in learning pace of the students. The progress sheet shows each and every student achievement and records his strength and weakness of the students learning activities. Students can engage with their studies Increases patience and endurance to tolerate pressure.
- 7. CONCLUSION The practice of assignment writing needs to be assumed as an art because of the fact that it takes courage and lot of hard work in delivering or completing the best piece of writing. Therefore, the importance of writing assignments in the field of higher education cannot be overlooked in any way. This is because of the reason that assignments are helpful in providing awareness and knowledge regarding the topic to a certain extent.