M.Ed.
M.Ed. Assignments
1st Year
Assignments
2015
School of Education
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi -110068
MES-051: EDUCATION: PHILOSOPHICAL AND
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Answer the following questions in about 500 words each
1. Discuss the poiitical nature of education. On what basis you can say that Present Indian education
system is in political in nature. Justify your answer with the help of examples.
2. Explain the concept of culture and cultural lag. Discuss the role of education in cultural change.
3. What is Gandhi’s educational philosophy? Discuss how these are relevant to the present scenario
of education.
MES-052:
PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING AND TEACHING
Answer the following questions in about 500 words each.
]. Adolescence is a period of “Stress and Strain”. Keeping in VIew the varIOUS developmental
aspects take place during this period, what specific educational measures do you suggest for
making the adolescents away from stress and strain? Explain.
2. What is a constructivist classroom? How children’s understanding can be used in a constructivist
classroom setting? Discuss the role of a constructivist teacher with suitable examples.
3. Sociometric technique can be effectively used for assessing social behavior of the students. You
as a teacher, conduct a sociometric technique on any problem of social behavior of the students
and prepare a sociomatrix table and draw a sociogram. Interpret the result.
MES 053:
EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT: MEANING AND
SCOPE
Note: Attempt all :the questions.
All questions carry equal weightage.
1. Answer the following question in about 500 words.
What do you understand by behavioral approach of administration? Prepare an analytical report
on your school’s administration by using lOHARI window model.
2. Answer the following question in about 500 words.
“School Development Plan (SDP) has become one of key activities of School Management
Committee (SMC) with the implementation of Right to Education Act (RTE-2009).” Visit a nearby
government elementary school and analyze the School development plan of the school in the
light of approaches of education planning.
3. Answer the following question in about 500 words.
Collect the data related to budget allocation to education in the Union Buget-20 14-15. Critically
analyze its allocation to various schemes and its viability as per your own understanding.
MES-054: METHODOLOGY OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Answer the following question in about 500 words each.
1. Describe the characteristics of a good tgest with examples.
2. What do you understand by ‘Research Report’? Discuss the use of tables and figures in the
presentation of data in a research report.
3. What are the steps of conducting an ‘Action Research’? Prepare an action research proposal
for a problem faced by you as a teacher.
MESE-057: MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION IN EDUCATION
Answer the following question in about 500 words each.
1. “The student assessment schemes are quite variable in nature and they are institutespecific,
program- specific and context-specific”. Elaborate.
2. Prepare a sociogram of your classroom and explain how much it is helpful in. understanding
the social structure of your students. Identify the measures that you would adopt to help the
isolates.
3. ‘Internal and external assessments are complementary to each other in the context of continuous
and comprehensive evaluation of students’. Justify your answer with suitable examples.
MESE-058: EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL GUIDELINES
AND COUNSELLING
Answer the following question in about 500 words each.
1. Explain the meaning of the term guidance and it major functions. Discuss the role of a teacher
in guiding children at the senior secondary level.
2. “Research and evaluation has an important place in guidance and counseling”.
Discuss the statement. According to you, which areas of the guidance and counseling should
be given more focus to enhance the quality of services provided by guidance counselors?
3. Visit and observe the counseling sessions conducted by two teachers working in your nearby
school. Do you think the teachers engaged in counseling possess counseling skills? Prepare a
report of your visit. What suggestions you will provide to the teachers of the school to become
effective counselors.
MESE-059 TEACHER EDUCATION IN INDIA : GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT
Answer the following question in about 500 words each.
1. Discuss the constraints of continuing education through distance mode and suggest measures to
overcome these.
2. Select anyone topic from a school subject of your choice and prepare a strategy for teaching
that topic using heuristic method of teaching.
3. Based on the report of the committee on revised norms and standards for select teacher education
programmes by NCTE, critically analyze its role in enhancing the quality of teacher training
programmes.