Attaining Computer Network Course Outcomes through Activities and Statistical Analysis of Simulation Results using SPSS Tool

Abstract

One of the important aspects of the outcome based Education (OBE) is the assessment of course outcomes (CO). As we have adopted the OBE framework for our programme. we have integrated the theory and laboratory course and conducted activities to achieve the course outcome of Computer Network course. As we know the tollgate courses have multiple prerequisite courses and to attain the course outcome the learning of these prerequisite courses can be applied in this course. The union of the attainment of the outcome sets of all the tollgate courses can be viewed as program outcome attainment. Fundamentally any tollgate course is progressive in the attainment of the outcomes. A Computer Network is one such toll gate course for computer science and engineering programme positioned during the sixth semester. The concepts of basic subjects like data structures, algorithms, object oriented programming, operating system are prerequisites which are used to solve a large problem. The authors have attempted to measure the outcomes of this tollgate course through theory and laboratory activities. One activity on the client server computational overview was tried to address the issues related to fault tolerant systems. Other activity defined to understand the network behavior for given parameters to apply the statistical techniques for the simulated results.