{"title":"Critical Evaluation of the Psychology Curricula of Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees","authors":"Pralhad Adhikari","doi":"10.3126/cdj.v30i44.54981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/cdj.v30i44.54981","url":null,"abstract":"Curricula are the guiding frameworks for the teaching-learning experience in the university. This auto-ethnographic account presents my critical evaluation of the curricula of the bachelor’s and master’s degrees of psychology being used at Tribhuvan University, after 5.5 years of teaching as a permanent faculty. There are some strengths in curricula like a strong theoretical foundation, and significant weightage for practical works, and some weaknesses like lack of integrated approach, ignorance of context, and aimlessness. The strengths can be retained and weaknesses can be corrected to provide psychology education that can meet changing societal or market demands.","PeriodicalId":157329,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Development Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128802267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating Refresher Training on Masters’ Course of Rural Development Subject","authors":"B. B. Khatri, Rajan Binayak Pasa","doi":"10.3126/cdj.v30i44.54971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/cdj.v30i44.54971","url":null,"abstract":"The refresher course training is pivotal for strengthening teachers’ commitment, sharing knowledge, increasing self-confidence, and keeping them up to date on current teaching learning activities. With this consideration, the aim of this paper is to assess the present syllabus of MA in Rural Development and evaluate the refresher course training program based on four levels of evaluation such as reaction, learning, behavior and result of the program. For that purpose, we purposively selected 25 participants who were associated in 21 campuses including Central Department. We applied survey based evaluation research method and Kirkpatrick four levels (reaction, learning, behavior and result) training evaluation model for assessing and examining outcomes of trainings. It reveals that the training program has evolved into an academic platform for students to share their personal experiences with course structure, teaching learning practices, and student performance. It has increased the capacity of the subject coordinators/teacher in terms of networking, course structure/function, performance assessment and constructivist pedagogy. Besides, they have developed a good network amongst the participants and resource persons. The major outputs of the program are SWOC analysis of course structure, 3Rs (Revisit, Revision and Restructure) course concept as well as list of lesson learn and new possible papers (course of study). Therefore, this short term training might brought long term impact improving course structure/function including pedagogical practices. Finally, course function scale, conceptual learning scale, Constructivist Pedagogy/learning theory scale, level four result/outcomes scale and characteristics of the participants are interlinked and associated significantly.","PeriodicalId":157329,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Development Journal","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121941972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"इलाम जिल्लाका विद्यालयहरूमा मातृभाषा पाठ्यक्रम कार्यान्वयन","authors":"बद्रि प्रसाद Badri Prasad फुएल Phuel","doi":"10.3126/cdj.v30i44.55008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/cdj.v30i44.55008","url":null,"abstract":"Available with fulltext.","PeriodicalId":157329,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Development Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130103974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘हिटलर र यहुदी’ उपन्यासमा परिवेश","authors":"गोकुल Gokul पोख्रेल Pokhrel","doi":"10.3126/cdj.v30i44.54985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/cdj.v30i44.54985","url":null,"abstract":"Available with fulltext.","PeriodicalId":157329,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Development Journal","volume":"323 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114372235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Students' and Teachers' Perceptions on Effective Physics Teaching and Learning","authors":"Bishnu Kumar Dahal","doi":"10.3126/cdj.v30i44.54972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/cdj.v30i44.54972","url":null,"abstract":"This research investigates how secondary school learners as well as teachers perceived effective physics learning and instruction. Consequently, a quantitative survey methodology was adopted for the investigation. Fifty-five students enrolled in grade twelve of two institutional secondary schools in Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts formed the sample size of the study. Seven teachers were enrolled in the study to collect data from two schools. The study was directed by two research questions. Researchers created a questionnaire with a four-point Likert scale as a tool for data collection. Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the reliability coefficient, which was found to be 0.84 after the instrument had undergone validation. In order to guarantee a 100 percent return, the researcher circulated the surveys via a Google Form and collected them. After the data were analyzed using mean and frequency distribution analysis to answer the research questions, the percentage of students’ and teachers’ responses to each item was calculated and tabulated. Some of the conclusions that were reached include the fact that most students’ comprehension of physics has a weak foundation.","PeriodicalId":157329,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Development Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131285180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effectiveness of RemoteXs System in Teaching and Research Practices","authors":"Pratichya Shakya, Lila Nyaichyai","doi":"10.3126/cdj.v30i44.54982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/cdj.v30i44.54982","url":null,"abstract":"Tribhuvan University Central Library (TUCL) has implemented Remote Access Services through the RemoteXs system to impart efficient e-resources services for its users mainly after the Covid-19 pandemic. This study aims at investigating the effectiveness of that system in teaching and research practices at Tribhuvan University. This study is based on a quantitative approach. Post positivist ontology has been adopted as a research paradigm that identifies that all observations are imperfect and have errors and all theory is revisable. The survey questionnaire was used to collect data. The population comprised faculty, Ph.D. scholars, and M. Phil. students among which 105 users were taken as a sample size. The demographic data and statistical data were analyzed using Excel, 2007. Hypotheses were tested to find out their effectiveness on teaching and research practices. This study proved that the p-value (p = 1.96) suggested a significant contribution to the effectiveness of the RemoteXS system in teaching and research practices. It is observed that thesystem provided current academic and research products in an easy and accessible way to faculties and M.Phil as well as Ph.D. students. High Likert scores on variables; increased productivity after use, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, relevancy of content, advanced search system, saving the time of users, and document downloading facilities also indicated the effective use of it by faculties and research students. At last, the issue of the unavailability of Nepal digital resources has been emphasized which would have been used rigorously for the conduction of research in the context of Nepal.","PeriodicalId":157329,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Development Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125011313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}