06/06/21

Module 7: Creative Problem Solving,

Innovation and Meaningful R&D Mentor
Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced
or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less
experienced or less knowledgeable person. ... It is a
learning and development partnership between
someone with vast experience and someone who wants
Mentor Orientation Training Programme
to learn
21-25 June, 2021
A senior or more experienced person (the mentor) is
Dr. (Ms) PK Tulsi, Former Professor, NITTTR, Chandigarh
assigned to act as an advisor, counselor, or guide to a
Email: [email protected]
junior or trainee. The mentor is responsible for providing
support and feedback

R&D Expenditure in Selected

Countries
Facilitate application of learnt
knowledge , skills & attitudes at
workplace by the inductee
teacher/mentee

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Research Publications Scientific Publication Output

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Patents Patents Filed & Granted

Patent Applications by Residents 14Grand Restore & Improve

Urban Infrastructure
Prevent Nuclear Terror

& Non-Resident Indians Challenges

National academy for Engineering
Source: h0p://www.engineeringchallenges.org/
challenges/virtualreality.aspx
Advance Personalized Learning Reverse-Engineer the Brain Secure Cyberspace Manage the Nitrogen Cycle

Develop Carbon
Make Solar Energy EconomicalEngineer Better MedicinesProvide Access to Clean Water Sequestration Methods

Enhance Virtual Reality Advance Health Informatics Engineer the Tools of

Provide Energy from Fusion
Scientific Discovery

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New Education Policy

Knowledge
Quality
Creation
Equity
Inclusive Innovation

sustainabledevelopment.un.org

A Comprehensive Training Policy for

Technical Teachers(AICTE) Competency of Module 7
•  “it is equally important to develop the competence to visualize
the indigenous needs creatively and to find appropriate
solutions which are useful and user-friendly. To develop such
competence and culture of creative innovation, one needs
•  Undertakes research and development activities
proper training and practice. Only when teachers themselves to find innovative solutions to the problems in
acquire the skill of proper need analysis, meaningful literature teaching learning, in their respective domain
review, problem framework, and creative problem solving, areas and faced by society (p13).
they can carry out meaningful work and guide the students
properly” (p6).
•  Need to develop a culture of creativity and innovation (p6)
•  Training in creaCve problem-solving and research methodology;
conducCon and guidance of R&D projects (p12).

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Module Outcome Let us check the previous

knowledge
• Solve problems creaCvely
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services etc. at workplace 1FAIpQLSfrgLLn_-
• Build effecCve teams for R&D gDA8gyOQi_AaNIu0qI_9d0YaNejXy2GjORE78l
bA/viewform?usp=sf_link
• Undertake research to improve
the various sub-components of
technical educaCon system

Creativity

Creative Problem Solving,

Innovation and Meaningful Blocks to Creativity
R&D
Concept
Qualities of a Creative
Person
UNIT I UNIT II Creative
Problem CPS
Solving

Techniques of
Creative
R&D through Generating Ideas
Problem Innovation
Team Building Process
Solving
Techniques of
Evaluating Ideas

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Problems
PoliCcal Social: Child Labour
• Complex
• Interdisciplinary
EducaCon
• Synergy

POLITICAL
Environment: Pollution

Blocks to CreaCvity •  Generation of creative ideas

•  Selection of ideas/options

• Fear of Failure Decision

• Allergy to Ambiguity Problem
Identification &
Making:
Creating and
Planning &
Organizing
• Touchiness Definition selecting
options

• Conformity •  Identify Apparent •  Prepare an action

• Rigidity Problem plan
•  Seek and analysis •  Implement
• Starved Sensibility the causes
•  Define the real
• Resource myopia problem
Creative Problem Solving: Process (Lowe, 1996)

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Innovation
Concept
•  Introduction of new products and services that
Incremental add value to the organization and meet the
customers needs (Kevin McFarthing)
INNOVATIONS Types
Radical •  Staying relevant to meet the ever changing
Process needs of constituents (Stephan Shapiro)

Need for Team Work

Team Work: Concept Group vs. Team

Forming
Idea
Diffusion
generation Advocacy
Experim- Commerci and
and and
entation alization impleme R&D through Storming
mobilization screening
ntation Team Work
Stages in the
Development of a Norming
Team

Principles of Building
Performing
Process of Innovation Effective Teams

Adjourning

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TEAM vs GROUP
•  Group of people •  Group of people
GROUP •  Common purpose •  No common purpose
•  Complementarity of •  NA
skills
•  No specific roles
•  Specific role assigned to
members
•  Interdependence •  Independent
•  Cooperation & •  NA
collaboration •  NA
•  Synergy •  NA
•  Norms •  NA
TEAM •  Mutually accountability

Research Process UNIT II

CapabiliCes
FormulaCon of Organizing &
WriCng a EvaluaCng a
Research ConducCng
Research Report Research Report
Proposal Research
Steps
Selecting & Selecting
Analysing Data
Defining a Research Design Collecting
and Interpreting
Research & Describing Data
Results
Problem Procedure

Reviewin Selecting Selecting/

Selecting Administe Tabulating
g Research Developin
Sample ring Tools Data
Literature Design g Tools
A small number of people with complementary
Need for Types of Process of
skills who are committed to a common purpose, Research Research Research
performance goals, and approach for which they
hold themselves mutually accountable.” Concept of
(Katzenbach and Smith, 1994) Educational Research

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UNIT II
•  Research in Technical education Self Learning Material(21)
•  Review of Related Literature
•  Selecting & Defining research problem
•  Selecting research design and describing
procedure Videos(47)
•  Action research
•  Sampling Techniques
•  Measuring Tools AcCviCes
•  Collection of Data
•  Analysis of Data
•  Formulation of Research Proposal
•  Writing a Research Report
Assessment
•  Evaluation of Research Report

ACTIVITIES PLANNED
Role of a Mentor
•  Identifying problems in technical education Solve problems creatively
system
•  Writing an abstract
Innovate the processes, Facilitate Application
•  Selecting & defining a research problem services, products etc. in of learnt concepts,
•  Designing a questionnaire work life Principles, Procedures
•  Writing a research proposal etc.
Build effective teams for
•  Designing a rubric for evaluation of a research R&D and build effective
article/report Teams of students
•  Evaluating a research article Undertake research to
•  ASSESSMENT through MCQs improve the various sub
components of technical
education system

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Role of a Mentor
Solve problems creatively

PART II: Rubric & Evidence to Innovate the processes, Facilitate Application
be Collected services, products etc. in
work life
of learnt concepts,
Principles, Procedures
Build effective teams for etc.
R&D and build effective
Teams of students
Undertake research to
improve the various sub
components of technical
education system

Module Outcomes
Solve problems creatively
Apply Learnt
Knowledge
Innovate the processes, products, services
etc.at workplace
Build effective teams
Problems
Teaching RespecCve
faced by
Learning Domain Area Build student teams
Society

Undertake research to improve the various sub-

components of technical education system

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Sl. No. Key Performance

Criteria (KPC) of
Module Outcomes
Displayed by Very good Good Fair Needs to Improve Comments/ Sl. No. Key Performance
(4) (3) (2) (1) Suggestions Criteria (KPC) of
Inductee Teacher Very good Good Fair Needs to Improve
Module Outcomes
(4) (3) (2) (1)
Displayed by Inductee
Teacher
1.  a. Identify problem Accurately Identifies Accurately Accurately Unable to
d. Develops a creative Develops Develops Develops the Unable to
all key elements in Identifies major Identifies some accurately identify
solution multidimensional multidimensional approach based develop the
the problems and key elements in key elements in any of the key
approach based approach based on selected approach to
relationship among the problems the problems elements in the
on multi- on major perspective to develop solution
them and and problems and
perspectives to perspective to develop solution to problem
relationship relationship relationship
develop creative develop creative to problem
among them among them among them
solution to solution to
problem problem
b. Collect relevant Presents relevant, Presents Presents Presents
information/data sufficient and relevant, relevant, irrelevant, e. Implements creative Implements the Implements the Implements the Implements the
credible data/ sufficient and somewhat insufficient and solution to problem approach to approach to approach to approach but
information credible major sufficient and not credible data/ arrive at logical arrive at logical arrive at logical fails to arrive at
data/ somewhat information and highly and moderately but not creative logical and
information credible data/ creative solution creative solution to creative solution
information to problem solution to problem to the problem
problem
c. Analysis of Analyze all the data/ Analyze major Analyze part of Analyze
information/data information for data/ the data/ insufficient data/
accuracy and information for information for information but
validity taking accuracy and accuracy and fails to take into
account of all validity taking validity but fails account limitations
limitations into account to take into
major account
limitations limitations

Sl. No. Key Performance

Criteria (KPC) of
Module Outcomes Very good Good Fair Needs to Improve
Comments
Displayed by (4) (3) (2) (1)
Inductee Teacher

Sl. Evidences Yes No

2. a. Define problem Exhibits clear Exhibits clear Exhibits Exhibits no
understanding of understanding understanding understanding of
problem from multi- of problem from of problem problem

No. perspectives majority of

perspectives
from limited
perspectives

1 Creative Problem solving

• Anecdotal record of/ documentation related to problem(s)
solved creatively b. Identify
innovative solution
Identifies innovative
solution technically
Identifies
innovative
Identifies
innovative
Identifies solution
neither innovative
feasible solution, solution, nor technically
• Photographs of problem(s) solved, if available, if any technically
feasible but
technically
feasible but
feasible

• Recognition at institute level etc. with minimal

risk
with maximum
risk

c. Align innovation Innovation is Innovation is Innovation is Innovation is not at

to institute
Objectives
completely aligned
to objectives
directly aligned
to objectives of
indirectly
aligned to
all aligned to
objectives of
institute institute objectives of institute
improvement improvement institute improvement
improvement

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Sl. Key Performance

No. Criteria (KPC) of Sl. Evidences Yes No
Module Outcomes
Displayed by
Inductee Teacher
Very good
(4)
Good
(3)
Fair
(2)
Needs to Improve
(1)
Comments No.

d. Impact on Innovation having Innovation Innovation Innovation having
1 Innovations
student learning high impact on
student learning
having
moderate
having some
impact on
least impact on
student learning
• Innovation in teaching learning- Product available (Teaching-
learning strategy, Media/ evaluation tool, assignment etc.),
impact on student
student learning
learning

documented record, if any

• Recognition at institute level etc.
e. Applicability of
innovation
Innovation is
applicable across
Innovation is
applicable
Innovation is
applicable
Innovation is not
all applicable
• Patent
disciplines across majority across limited across
of disciplines disciplines disciplines

Sl. No. Key Performance

Criteria (KPC) of
Module Outcomes Very good Good Fair Needs to Improve
Comments
Displayed by (4) (3) (2) (1) Sl. Key Performance
Inductee Teacher No. Criteria (KPC) of
Module Outcomes Needs to
3. a. Contribution to Contributes original Contributes Express Does not Very good Good Fair
Displayed by Inductee Improve Comments
ideas ideas on his own ideas on his agreement with contribute ideas or (4) (3) (2)
Teacher (1)
own ideas given by express
others agreement
d. Support to others Supports others in When asked, When asked, Neither
accomplishing supports others supports others supports others
assigned in half heartedly in on his own nor
responsibilities accomplishing accomplishing when asked for
assigned assigned
responsibilities responsibilities
b. Individual Completes Completes Completes Does not complete
responsibility & individual individual individual individual
standards responsibilities and responsibilities responsibilities responsibilities
exceeds the desired to the desired but not to the
standards standards desired
standards e. Facilitate Helps in taking Helps in taking Helps in taking Neither
decision making/ decisions and decisions and decisions facilitates
resolving conflicts resolving conflicts when asked for decision taking
c. Interaction Always Interact with Most of the time Sometimes Never interacts helps in n
with other & others Interacts with interact with with others with resolving or resolving
recognition to and give respect & others with others with respect and conflicts conflicts
others recognition to respect and respect and recognition to
others recognition to recognition to others
others others

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Sl. No. Key Performance

Criteria (KPC) of
Module Outcomes Very good Good Fair Needs to Improve
S r . Evidence Yes No Displayed by
Inductee Teacher
(4) (3) (2) (1)
Comments

No 4. a.  Building Constitutes teams Constitutes Constitutes Constitutes teams

Student teams with members teams with teams with without any
1. R&D through Team Work having
complementary
members
having
members
having similar
consideration of
skills
skills complementary skills
skills but some

•  Documentation related to team having similar

skills

work
b. Accessibility Remains accessible Remains Remains Is not accessible
•  R e s e a r c h r e p o r t , P a p e r to student teams to team for accessible accessible to to team during the
facilitation most of the teams work
Published, photograph or video throughout the work time to trams
for facilitation
sometimes for
facilitation
recording , if any
•  Peer Assessment related to c.  Monitor Continuously Frequently Sometime Never monitors
team work progress monitors progress
of teams
Monitors
progress of
monitors
progress of
progress of team

team team

Sr. No Evidence Yes No

Sl. No. Key Performance
Criteria (KPC) of
Module Outcomes Needs to
Very good Good Fair
Displayed by
Inductee Teacher
(4) (3) (2)
Improve
(1)
Comments
1 Build Student Teams
d. Evaluate team Evaluates team Evaluates team Evaluates team Does not
•  Documentation related to
performance performance based
on self, peer and
performance
based on peer
performance
based on
evaluate team
performance
constitution of team, team
teacher assessment and teacher
assessment
teacher
assessment
activity, output of team
work (Report/Paper)
•  R u b r i c f o r t e a c h e r
evaluation, self evaluation
& peer evaluation

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Sl. No. Key Performance Sl. No. Key Performance

Criteria (KPC) of Criteria (KPC) of Needs to
Very good Good Fair
Module Outcomes Very good Good Fair Needs to Improve Module Outcomes Improve Comments
Comments (4) (3) (2)
Displayed by (4) (3) (2) (1) Displayed by (1)
Inductee Teacher Inductee Teacher
5. a)  Collect data/ Collect relevant and Collect relevant Collect relevant Collect data/
5. a)  Define a Selects and defines Select and Select and Select a problem information reliable data/ and reliable data/ information
research explicitly a define a define a but fail to information from all data/ information from limited
problem significant problem significant problem adequately define sources information from selected sources
problem it. from majority of sources
sources

a)  Analysis of Interprets the data/ Interprets major Interprets part Interprets the
a)  State research State adequate State majority State some State research data/ information using data/ of the data/ data/
questions number of research of the research research questions information appropriate information information information
questions questions questions inaccurately statistical using using using
accurately accurately accurately techniques appropriate appropriate inappropriate
statistical statistical statistical
techniques techniques techniques

a)  Interpretation of Interpret the Interpret Interpret some Interpret the

a)  Select Select appropriate Select Select Select
Results findings correctly majority of the of the findings findings
research method, adequate appropriate appropriate inappropriate
and draw logical findings correctly incorrectly
design & sample, appropriate method, method, method, adequate
conclusions correctly And draw and draw
describe tools and statistical adequate inadequate sample, tools and
And draw logical illogical
research techniques sample, sample, statistical
logical conclusions conclusions
procedure somewhat appropriate techniques
conclusions
appropriate tools and
tools and statistical
statistical techniques
techniques a)  Research Write a well planned Write Write a Write a
Report and organized reasonably research report research report
research report planned and omitting some omitting major
organized details details
research report

Total

Sr. No. Evidence Yes No

1. Research
•  Research report
•  Experimental set up
•  Tools used
•  Product as an outcome of
research
•  Paper published on the basis
of research undertaken

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India’s Output, Impact &

Knowledge Transfer

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