Punjabi University General M.A Education Educational Statistics 2009 Question Paper

University : Punjabi University
Question Paper Title : Educational Statistics
Course : M.A Education
Question Paper Year 2009

SEMESTER-II
PAPER-I
SOCIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION
Course Content
UNIT-I
1. Educational Sociology: Meaning, scope and functions.
2. Impact of Education on society and vice-versa.
UNIT-II
3. Education and Social Change: Meaning, concept and role of Education in social change.
4. Modernization: Meaning, concept and role of Education in Modernization.
UNIT-III
5. Various agencies in Education: Family, school and community.
6. Education for Democracy and National Integration: role of Education in achieving the two.
UNIT-IV
7. Meaning and process of Socialization in Education.
8. Culture: Meaning, characteristics and role of education in cultural change.
   
PAPER-II
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ABILITIES

Course Content
UNIT-I
1. Intelligence: Concept, nature and theories of intelligence.
2. Measurement of intelligence, an overview of a few selected intelligence tests and their uses.
UNIT-II
3. Personality: Concept, nature, types and development of personality and theories of personality.
4. Measurement of Personality: Objective, subjective and projective techniques with special reference to some selected personality tests.
UNIT-III
5. Gifted Children: their identification, characteristics problems and education.
6. Creative Children: their identification, characteristics and education.
UNIT-IV
7. Educational Backwardness: Meaning; causes, diagnosis and treatment. Delinquency: its causes and prevention.
8. Handicapped: Physically and socially; causes, diagnosis and educational measures.


PAPER-III
EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS

Course Content
UNIT-I
1. Quantitative measurement and levels of measurement, frequency distribution, graphical representation of data through frequency polygon, histogram, cumulative frequency curve, ogive.
2. Measures of central tendency — mean, median, mode.
UNIT-II
3. Measures of variability — range, quartile deviation, standard
4. Normal probability curve — its properties and uses.
UNIT-III
5. Significance of mean and other statistics and significance of difference between means (independent groups and correlated groups).
6. Analysis of variance (two way) — Assumptions, limitations and uses.
UNIT-IV
7. Chi square — its assumption and uses.
8. Correlation — Meaning, Assumptions, Spearman's rho, Pearson's




PAPER-IV (Option-iii)
PEDAGOGICAL BASIS OF TEACHING
OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
.
Course Content
UNIT-I
1. Teaching of Social Sciences: Meaning, need, and characteristics and advantages of a good teaching method.
2. Methods of teaching Social Sciences: Story telling method, lecture method, discussion method, project method and source method.
UNIT-II
3. Audio-visual Aids in teaching Social Sciences: Meaning, Importance and Types.
Principles and maxims of teaching of Social Sciences.
4. Devices of teaching Social Sciences : Over Head Projector (OHP), Computer.
UNIT-III
5. Micro-teaching: Meaning, Procedure, skills, advantages and disadvantages.

6. Teaching skills of Social Sciences:
(i)    Skill of introducing a lesson
(ii)    Skill of explaining lesson
(iii) Skill of Fluency in question
(iv) Skill of use of audio-visual aids.
UNIT-IV
7. Evaluation of Social Sciences Instructions: Characteristics of an effective programme of evaluation in Social Sciences, essay versus objective type tests.
8. Lesson Planning: Meaning, need, steps involved in lesson planning and format of a lesson plan.

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