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Computing is in nature a problem-driven science and therefore PBL approaches have been applied to teach various subjects. Kay et al. (2000) describe PBL in foundation courses in computer science. The course is driven by specific problems related to programming skills and the instructors have set specific criteria to measure the success of their approach at the end of each problem. Having applied the approach for three years the authors of the study conclude that the PBL approach promoted the collaboration among students and their problem solving abilities. A problem-based approach is used in a software development project (O'Kelly and Gibson, 2006). The authors claim that, with this approach, students are provided with the freedom to think for themselves, activate their prior knowledge and acquire new knowledge in an explorative and creative way. Another study supports that lecture based approaches are not stimulating and the computer skills learnt are not transferable to other situations (Lai, 2005). The author applied PBL in teaching pre-school teachers popular computer applications such as Microsoft Office. Based on their evaluation of the activities, the author concludes that the course was motivational and also promotes higher order thinking skills. Ellis et al. (1998) refer to the full problem-based learning and the guided problem-based learning approaches. In full problem-based learning, the nature of the problem guides and drives the entire learning experience. There are no formal expositions of knowledge from the "expert", and the students develop resources based on requirements they determine. In guided problem-based learning, students have a problem to solve as a group.

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What was the result of problem based learning approach ?

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: B

According to the passage, the result of the problem-based learning approach was that it promoted collaboration among students, option (B). The study of Kay et al. concluded after three years that PBL promoted collaboration among students and their problem-solving abilities. Improved peer coordination (A) is not the wording of the finding. Being applied to teach subjects (C) and being applied only to computer science (D) describe use, not results, and (D) is false because it was also used in a software project and for pre-school teachers.

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What are the advantages of PBL application in teaching ?

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: D

According to the passage the advantage of PBL in teaching is the freedom to think, option (D). In the software development project students are given the freedom to think for themselves, to activate prior knowledge and to learn in an explorative way. Self study (A), exploration of literature (B) and soft skills (C) are not stated as advantages in the passage. The other options may be good effects of learning in general, but only the freedom to think is stated in the passage as an advantage of the problem-based approach.

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What are the limitations of lecture based approach ?

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: B

The limitation of the lecture based approach is that it is not stimulating, option (B). The passage says that lecture based approaches are not stimulating and that the computer skills learnt are not transferable to other situations. Option (A) says the reverse. Option (C), not repetitive, is not mentioned, and option (D), transferable to others, contradicts the passage. The limitation is a claim about learning, so options that praise the lecture method, or that give a feature not mentioned, cannot be the limitation stated.

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Which types of approaches are described by Ellis ?

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: D

The approach described by Ellis among the options is guided problem based learning, option (D). The passage says that Ellis et al. refer to the full problem-based learning and the guided problem-based learning approaches. Group based (A), expert based (B) and lecture based (C) are not the names Ellis gives to approaches in the passage. The two approaches named in the passage are the full and the guided approaches, and of the options only the guided one is named there.

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5.

Chairman of the Curriculum Development Committee (CDC), Library and Information Science appointed by UGC in 2001 was :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The chairman was C.R. Karisiddappa.

In the late 1990s the University Grants Commission set up Curriculum Development Committees to draft model syllabi for each discipline. The committee for Library and Information Science was headed by Prof. C.R. Karisiddappa of Karnatak University, Dharwad, and its report of 2001 became the UGC Model Curriculum for LIS, the basis on which many Indian universities revised their BLISc and MLISc courses.

K.A. Isaac, P.N. Kaula and P.B. Mangla were also prominent Indian LIS educators, but none of them chaired this 2001 committee.

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6.

IATLIS is an association of :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

IATLIS is an association of Teachers of Library and Information Science.

The name expands as the Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science. It is the professional body of LIS educators in India and works on curriculum, teaching standards and the quality of library education in university departments.

The other groups have their own bodies: special librarians are represented by IASLIC (the Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres), and college and school librarians by various state and national library associations. None of them is called IATLIS, which is why the word 'Teachers' in the acronym settles the question.

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7.

First All India Library Conference was held in 1918 at :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

The first All India Library Conference of 1918 was held at Lahore.

The conference met at Lahore in January 1918, at a time when the Punjab was one of the active centres of the early library movement in India; Lahore had a library training class at Punjab University from 1915 under the American librarian Asa Don Dickinson.

Baroda is associated with W.A. Borden's library movement and the first library training class of 1911, Madras with the Madras Library Association of 1928 and Ranganathan, and Calcutta with the Imperial Library. None of them hosted the 1918 conference.

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Which was the first Indian university that has changed the Diploma Course in Library Science to B.Lib.Sc. ?

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: C

The first university to convert its diploma course into the B.Lib.Sc. degree was Aligarh Muslim University.

In the early decades of library education in India, universities offered a post-graduate diploma in library science. Aligarh Muslim University is credited in the standard accounts of Indian library education with being the first to replace the diploma with a bachelor's degree, the B.Lib.Sc., a pattern later followed across the country.

Delhi University is remembered for other firsts, the first full master's degree and doctoral programme in library science under Ranganathan. Madras is remembered for the certificate course begun in 1929 by the Madras Library Association, and Banaras Hindu University for an early diploma course, but neither was first with the B.Lib.Sc.

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9.

Who has introduced Advancement of Librarianship Programme ?

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

The Advancement of Librarianship Programme was introduced by IFLA.

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions launched its core programme for the Advancement of Librarianship in the Third World (ALP) in 1984. It supported library development, education and training in developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America through regional offices, seminars and projects.

UNESCO worked with IFLA and ran its own programmes such as the General Information Programme, but ALP was IFLA's. FID (the International Federation for Information and Documentation) dealt with documentation, and ICSU is the International Council for Science, a body of scientific unions.

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10.

The Library Science Education in India started at :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

Library science education in India started at Baroda.

Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda invited the American librarian William Alanson Borden to organise a library system for the state. Borden started a training class for library workers at Baroda in 1911, the first formal library science training in India.

Lahore (Punjab University, 1915) and Madras (the Madras Library Association's course of 1929) followed later. Bombay's diploma course began in the 1940s, and New Delhi's university programme under Ranganathan came after Independence, so none of them was the starting point.

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