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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

AMENDED APPENDIX – III TABEL – I

PROPOSED SCORES FOR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (APIs) IN
RECRUITMENT AND CAREER ADVANCEMENT SCHEME (CAS) PROMOTIOSN OF
UNIVERSITY/ COLLEGES TEACHERS.

Category I: Teaching, LEARNING AND EVALUATION Related ACTIVITIES
Brief Explanation: Based on the teacher’s self-assessment, API scores are proposed for
(a) teaching related activities; (b) domain knowledge; (c) participation in examination and
evaluation; (d) contribution to innovation teaching from this category is 75. The self-assessment
score should be based on objectively verifiable criteria wherever possible and will be finalized by
the screening/ selection committee.
University will be required to detail the activities and in case institutional specificities require,
adjust the weightages, without changing the minimum total API scores required under this category.

S.No. Nature of Activity Maximum Score
1 Lectures, seminars, tutorial, practicals, contact hours undertaken taken 50
as percentage of lectures allocated
2 Lectures or other teaching duties in excess of the UGC norms 10
3 Preparation and Imparting of knowledge / instruction as per curriculum; 20
syllabus enrichment by providing additional resources to students

4 Use of participatory and innovative teaching-learning methodologies; 20
updating of subject content, course improvement etc.
5 Examination duties (Invigilation; question paper setting, evaluation/ 25
assessment of answer scripts) as per allotment
Total Score 125
Minimum API Score Required 75
Note: a: Lectures and tutorial allocation to add up to the UGC norm for particular category
of teacher. University may prescribe minimum cut-off (net of due leave), say 80% for 1 and 5
above, below which no scores may be assigned in these sub-categories.

Note 2:
The model table proposes API scores and the mode for awarding these scores for various
parameters of Category I of PBAS.
1. Wherever the unit of assessment is the number of hours, the teacher is required to compute
the total number of hours allocated as per the time-table or the actual number of hours spent
in that activity in the previous academic year. The institution can verify these from the official
Time Table and the record of students’ attendance.

2. In calculating the number of hours allocated, only working days/weeks will be taken into
account. For example, if a teacher has been assigned 20 hours of classroom teaching per
week in an institution that teachers for 16 weeks per semester, the teacher would write 320
hours (plus another 320 hours if his/her teaching load is the same in the second semester) in
the row 1A(i). Since this is 2 hours higher than the UGC norm, s/he would claim additional
2 x 16 hours in row 1A(ii). If s/he actually taught for 275 hours in that semester, s/he would
claim 275 hours in row 1A(iii). So, in all, she would get credit for 320+32+275=627 hours
for that semester. S/he would do similar calculation for the second semester and the total
would be entered in each row.

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