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Jagroop Singh, Mehr Chand Polytechnic College, IndiaAbstract
Now-a-days Polytechnic Scholars need to possess self monitoring and life long learning skills. They need to be creative, critical thinkers, problem solvers and analytical in their approach. In the present scenario teachers at various Polytechnics in Punjab are still practising the age old traditional and conventional method of giving lectures in classrooms where students acquire and absorb information as provided to them. Students can no longer survive by memorising text books, they now need to explore every possibility and experience genuine tasks that converts them to the real world problems in which they can develop, master and demonstrate applicable skills. Engineering Education at the Polytechnics need to move from an Instructive method to Constructive approach. PBL (Problem Based Learning) is one such approach where co-operative sharing and team work among small groups of learners in solving ill structured problems play an important role in the learning method. This approach of teaching combines problems, challenges, creativity and fun into learning. This paper provides a detailed description, experimentation and comparative study of both these systems of learning in civil engineering education at a polytechnic of Punjab consisting of rural students and discusses at length the need, objectives, research methodology, future scope and effectiveness of PBL in improving the learning and creative skills among polytechnic students with a special focus on below average group.
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