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NAAC's New Methodology for Accreditation
By sachiv, Section Student Dairies
National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has introduced a new methodology of assessment and accreditation with effect from April 1, 2007.
The new methodology of institutional assessment and accreditation, has been designed with a view to overcome the limitations of its earlier methodology, and to enhance its rigour, reliability and validity. Besides envisaging significant reduction in inter-team assessment variations, the new methodology, which is said to be userfriendly, is also expected to enable NAAC to conduct the assessment of a large number of institutions effectively and in a short span of time.
In all there will now be 25 parametres to measure the quality of the institutions.
V S Prasad, director, NAAC, said:"The primary aim is to at least ensure a minimum standard in all of the 18,000 colleges in the country." As per the new methodology, there will be a shift from the existing nine point grading to three point grade in assessment and accreditation of higher educational institutions. One of the major highlights of this methodology is that a cumulative grade point average on a four point scale is used instead of numerical scores.
Also a two-step approach is introduced for affiliated and constituent colleges as follows:
(Source-Times Of India,02/04/07)
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