Criterion 2.6

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Program Outcomes (POs), Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs), and Course Outcomes (COs) are framed by the department offering the concerned programme following extensive consultation with all faculty and stakeholders, in strict conformity with the objectives of Outcome Based Education (OBE). Following the achievement of consensus, the information is extensively disseminated and popularized via various methods, such as display and/or communication, as described below.

●    Department Notice Boards

●    Website

●    Meetings with employers

●    Laboratories

●    Library

●    Induction Programs

●    Faculty meetings

●    Parent meet

●    Alumni meetings

The HODs raise awareness of POs, PSOs, and COs when speaking to the pupils. Faculty members, class teachers, mentors, course coordinators, and program/ISO coordinators also provide information to students, raise awareness, and stress the importance of achieving the goals.

Specified skill requirements and accomplishments to be met by students at the micro level and by the end of the programme are known as programme specific outcomes (PSOs). The PSOs, which are normally two to four in number, are prepared by the programme coordinators in cooperation with the course coordinators. The BOS of each department, which includes the Head of Department and subject specialists, will discuss and approve the proposal after it has been approved by the Principal.

Program Outcomes (POs) are broad statements that summarize the professional accomplishments that the programme wants to achieve and that students must achieve by the end of the programme. POs cover a wide range of interconnected information, talents, and personality attributes that students must acquire before graduating.

Course outcomes (COs) are direct statements that explain the essential and persistent discipline, knowledge, talents, and depth of learning that students should acquire following course completion. They are specified and communicated in detail. The course coordinator, in cooperation with concerned faculty members teaching the same course, creates the Course Outcomes. It will be verified by the Module Coordinator. Finally, they are debated and authorized in the concerned department’s BOS meeting.

The program’s POs/PSOs are published on the college’s website, https://iem.edu.in/, through electronic media. The course COs are also available in electronic format at the Department site, which can be found at https://iem.edu.in/. Awareness of POs, PSOs, and COs is intentionally encouraged in all interactions with pupils.

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As received from COE

1.         Establishing relation between PEOs and POs to set up a target level of PO attainment.

Table : 1.1

2.      Defining relation between Course Outcomes (COs) and POs for each course to obtain overall CO mapping with each POs.

In this step, COs of each course are mapped with POs. The CO levels corresponding to each PO are averaged to obtain overall CO level for each PO and this is repeated for all courses.

Example: Obtaining overall CO level with each PO for the course PCCC 501

. Table: 2.1

The last row of the above table is showing the corresponding overall CO levels with each PO for PCCC501.

3.      Development of overall CO-PO mapping matrix for all courses.

The overall CO levels will be obtained for all courses from the CO-PO mapping table of each course (Table: 2.1) and can be expressed in matrix form. Each element of the matrix can be expressed as 𝐶𝑂𝑃𝑂𝑖, where 𝑖 denotes serial number of a course and 𝑗 corresponds 𝑗th PO.

Example: A part of the COPO mapping matrix is given below

Table: 3.1

From the above matrix, the bottom right element can be written as 𝐶𝑂𝑃𝑂_Nth,12.

4.             Course Outcome (CO) Attainment Process: The attainment of COs are evaluated using the existing student data from the examination results, quizzes and laboratory sessions for a course.

CO Attainment value is evaluated using the formula given below.

Attainment % of            

( where i  is the serial number of CO )

According to the formula those students are considered only who have scored greater than/equal to the 60 % of marks assigned for a particular question.

⮚       Computation and construction of overall CO attainment matrix for each course using course assessment tools.

The assessment tools for CO attainment of the courses are minor exams, major exam and continuous assessment. The CO attainment levels for each method of assessment are defined below

Table : 4.1

Course attainment levels through End Semester Examination (E𝑖) , Mid Semester Examination (𝑀𝑖) and Continuous Assessment(CA𝑖) assessment method for 𝑖th course are obtained using the above table and method-wise marks obtained by students in a course.

Overall Course Outcome (OCO) attainment level for each course is given by

𝑂𝐶𝑂𝑖=0.7×E𝑖 + 0.2×𝑀𝑖   + + 0.1×CA𝑖          ( i is the serial number of a course.)

Where E𝑖 and M𝑖 represent CO attainment levels using End Semester, Mid Semester assessment methods respectively.

Example: Overall CO attainment level for a course

Table : 4.2

Overall CO attainment level of PCCCS 501

𝑂𝐶𝑂₁ = 𝟎.7×𝟑 + 𝟎.2×𝟐 + 𝟎.1×3 =2.80  ( 1 is the serial number of the course. PCCCS 501)

5.   Attainment of PO through CO-PO mapping: Attainment of each PO is calculated using the mapping of respective CO to PO/s and the attainment of each CO using the following equation.

          (Where i is the serial number of PO ranges from 1 to 12)

⮚      Calculation and construction of Direct PO attainment matrix using overall CO-PO mapping matrix and overall CO attainment matrix.

The direct PO attainment of a course is given by

𝐷𝐶𝑃𝑂𝑖,=𝐶𝑂𝑃𝑂𝑖,𝑘×1/3 𝑂𝐶𝑂𝑖

Where 𝑖 is the serial number of a course, 𝑘 corresponds to 𝑘th PO. 𝐶𝑂𝑃𝑂𝑖, and 𝑂𝐶𝑂𝑖 can be obtained from Table: 3.1 and Table: 4.1 with formulae respectively for each course.

6.      Calculation of overall Direct PO attainment.

7.      Calculation of Indirect PO attainment.

Indirect assessment is done through program student survey, alumni survey and employer survey. Program student’s survey is given a weight age of 40%, employer and alumni survey are given a weight age of 30% each. Survey forms were prepared (hard copy and Google form) and distributed among current students, graduating students, alumni and employers. Feedback forms were designed with questions corresponding to POs and PSOs relevant to the program. All the feedback forms are collected and data are tabulated in an excel sheet.

Average level for each PO has been calculated using the formula

Where 𝑝 is the number of current student participants, 𝑞 is the number of alumni participants, 𝑟 is the number of employer participants, 𝑗 is the number of PO related questions and 𝑄𝑃𝑂𝑗, is the level given by 𝑝th participant for 𝑗th question. 𝐼𝑃𝑂𝑗 is the indirect attainment of 𝑗th PO.

8.      Computation of overall PO attainment

The formula for calculating overall PO attainment is given by

𝑂𝑃𝑂𝑗=0.8×𝐷𝑃𝑂𝑗+0.2×𝐼𝑃𝑂𝑗,

where 𝑗=1…12 (12 POs).

9.      Comparison of target level and obtained PO attainment

In this step the target levels of PO attainment which were obtained from step 1 are compared with the attainment computed in step 8.

Example:

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Data Requirement (As per Data Template) To be updated

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