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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.

Research Aptitude
● Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Postpositivistic 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.






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