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Title Evaluation of Objectives Un/Achieved by the Undergraduates in English Language Courses through Outcome Based Education System at Engineering Department, NUML

Author(s) Safee Ullah Safee

Abstract This research has been conducted to evaluate whether the undergraduates of Engineering department NUML, have achieved the outcomes in their English language courses through outcome-based education system or not. The sole purpose of conducting this research was to determine effectiveness of the OBE in English language courses taught to the undergraduates of engineering department at NUML. For this purpose, triangulated data was considered. In the first phase, the performance of all students in English Language courses was considered for analysis. This performance was based on the course learning outcomes measured through outcome-based education system. The collected data has been presented with the help of graphs. In the second phase a sample of fifteen teachers was selected at random from a population of 80 teachers of Faculty of Engineering and Computer Sciences, NUML, Islamabad. In this sample, five teachers are currently teaching English language courses in different departments of afore mentioned faculty and other eight teachers and two lab engineers are teaching in the department of Electrical engineering at NUML. These all teachers are well trained and implementing the OBE in their courses. The data was collected from these teachers through a questionnaire consist of closed ended questions only. The collected data has been presented with the help of pie-chart. In the third phase the data was collected from 15 students, selecting five at random from the particular semesters in which English language course are offered. This data was also collected through the questionnaire consist of close ended questions only. The information obtained from the students has been presented with the help of pie chart. The findings of this study show that following the OBE system, the undergraduates of engineering department, NUML, Islamabad have successfully achieved course learning outcomes in English language courses. This research also concludes that OBE system is better than the traditional system of teaching because former is student centric whereas the latter is teacher centric. The study also gives certain recommendations at the end for successful conduct of OBE system.

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Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2022-07-05

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