Choice Based Credit System

Higher education system in India has undergone quite a lot of transformation over the years. The UGC Committee in 2008 has made several important recommendations with regard to academic reforms in university and college system for enhancement of quality and excellence in higher education. Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) was one of the proposed aspects of reforms which is revolutionary innovation in education. A number of universities and institutes of higher learning in India have adopted CBCS and CAGP as per the advocacies by UGC and NAAC. The authors of this book conducted a research study on the attitudes of university teachers towards the CBCS in the M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Science faculty of the M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India, who was the first to implement the CBCS in the university, has been selected for the study and all the teachers of Science faculty were selected as a sample for the study. The constructed attitude scale was implemented on all the teachers of the Science faculty of the M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. This book highlights the major findings of the study alongwith its discussion.