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You must have read enough about NBA accreditation from our previous blogs. We thought we would now move further to tipping on a few facets of the NBA accreditation criteria. Before that let us stress what we have already done.

There is a furor everywhere about the National Board of Accreditation being made a mandate by 2022. Running a technical institute without the NBA needs a gear-up. Gaining this hallmark quality needs a certain understanding.

You will find answers to most of your National Board of Accreditation-related uncertainties in this blog. Besides you would also know the What, When, Why, and How of it. Read on.

When it comes to mapping learning outcomes, the secret lies in various ways it is done. The rising demand in today’s institutions has left the departments to ruminate on course content, curricular goals, a regular and systematic review process of the goals, how courses support the attainment of the goals, and how these goals are assessed. This is absolutely where mapping creeps in. With the advent of outcome-based education, mapping has become a more crucial concept.

Competency-based education (CBE) programs are transforming higher education by personalized learning and enabling students to earn a college degree at their own pace while developing real-world job skills. 

Competency-based education

Accreditation is about assuring threshold quality as well as assuring quality improvement in higher education institutions and programs. Colleges, universities and higher education institutes should ensure academic quality. The goal of accreditation is to ensure that education provided by institutions of higher education meet acceptable levels of quality.

This is what happens in a classroom. When you teach a hard topic in Mathematics, most of the students will find it difficult to solve the problem. Very few knew the right answer even after you worked with some examples. When you teach again for few more minutes, few more students can find the right answer. When you take the problem the other way and teach with videos and slides, many will think it is easy. As a result of this experience, students can learn very quickly and no one had to come for after-school tutoring. 

Many academic institutions are increasingly feeling the need for revamping the assessment pattern. A flexible assessment data management system enables institutions to manage data related to coursework, quizzes, tests, and examinations, and generate reports to evaluate student performance.  The system is built around academic goals to improve student learning and outcomes and help educational institutions to take informed decisions. The education assessment platform works on multiple platforms – cloud, web and mobile.