Abstract
The Outcome Based Education (OBE) has been one of the major concern of most academic institutions in India, especially among engineering colleges since the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) has made it compulsory towards program accreditation. However, the concept of OBE resulted to various attainment to Programme Outcome (PO) based on the Course Outcome (CO). Execution of the OBE may not be an easy matter as the mapping of the CO for each assessment may be mapped to multiple PO. This paper describe the analysis process of the CO and PO attainment for Design and Analysis of Algorithms subject, which is offered to 2nd year students of Computer Science and Engineering, SR Engineering College, Warangal. Two methods are incorporated, (1) direct measurement, and (2) segregated measurement. The study identified that segregated measurement are more sensitive towards identifying the issues which affect attainment of CO and PO. Issues related to non-fulfillment of either CO or PO for Design and Analysis of Algorithms subject can be traced to lack of awareness towards Problem Analysis and Complexity of Algorithms and student's attitude towards subject knowledge.
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