UGC NET Paper 1: Teaching and Research Aptitude

Perpetual access refers to the right to ongoing access to electronic materials. In situations where digital materials are licensed, access to these materials is often lost after the licensing agreement has expired. In many cases, the two parties involved in the license agree that it is necessary for the licensee to retain access to these materials after the license has lapsed. Perpetual access is a term that is used within the library community to describe the ability to retain access to electronic journals after the contractual agreement for these materials has passed.

Hermeneutics is the theory of text interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.

A passage or segment taken from a longer work, such as a literary or musical composition, a document or a film.

Installation (or setup) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins) is the act of making the program ready for execution.

Feedback is a process in which information about the past or the present influences the same phenomenon in the present or future. Feedback is a critical component of effective communication.

Formative assessment or diagnostic testing is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures employed by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment. Summative assessment is characterised as assessment of learning and is contrasted with formative assessment, which is assessment for learning.

Internal monologue, also known as inner voice, internal speech, or verbal stream of consciousness is thinking in words. It also refers to the semi-constant internal monologue one has with oneself at a conscious or semi-conscious level.

Course articulation is the process by which one institution matches its courses or requirements to course work completed at another institution. Students use course articulation to assure that the courses they complete will not have to be repeate at the institution to which they are transferring.

Active learners prefer group work. They tend to be interpersonal.

The principle of encoding specificity states that we encode information along with its context. The memory utilises cues from which the information was encoded and from the environment in which it is being retrieved.

Epistemological theories are basic theories about how knowledge is obtained and how to evaluate information sources. Empiricism evaluates sources by considering the observations (or sensations) on which they are based. Sources without basis in experience are not seen as valid.

Maturationism is an early childhood educational philosophy that sees the child  as a growing organism and believes that the role of education is to passively support this growth rather than actively fill the child with information.

Instructional theories focus on the methods of instruction for teaching curricula. Educational psychology is an empirical science that provides descriptive theories of how people learn. Instructional theories are not a part of Educational psychology.

In scientific inquiry and academic research, fabrication is the intentional misrepresentation of research results by making up data such as that reported in a journal article.

Semantic memory is the aspect of memory that preserves only the gist, the general significance of remembered experience.

Prasar Bharati is India's largest public broadcaster. Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.

Meta-communication is a secondary form of communication (including indirect cues) about how a piece of information is meant to be interpreted.

Intuitive Learners do not like courses that involve a lot of memorisation and routine calculations. They prefer discovering possibilities and relationships. They like innovation and dislike repetition.

An electronic portfolio (also known as an eportfolio, e-portfolio, digital portfolio, or online portfolio) is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user, usually on the Web. Such electronic evidence may include inputted text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog entries, and hyperlinks. E-portfolios are both demonstrations of the user's abilities and platforms for self-expression, and if they are online, they can be maintained dynamically over time. An e-portfolio can be seen as a type of learning record that provides actual evidence of achievement.

Coordinated management of meaning is a theory assuming that two individuals engaging in an interaction are each constructing their own interpretation and perception behind what a conversation means. A core assumption within this theory includes the belief that all individuals interact based on rules that are expected to be followed while engaging in communication. Individuals within any social situation first want to understand what is going on and apply rules to figure things out.

The term autonomous university' typically refers to a University which exercises independent control over its day-to-day operations and curriculum.

There are Central Universities in all of the states of India except Goa. Of the Union Territories, there are Central Universities in Delhi and Puducherry.

UGC was formally inaugurated by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research on 28 December 1953.

A mind map is a diagram used to visually organise information. A mind map is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the centre of a blank landscape page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those.