Towards improving the Performance of the Weak Students through Identification and Effective Implementation of Tasks by the Quality Circle

In this paper the weak students are identified by Pareto analysis, the cause and effect diagrams are drawn for the critical subjects and weak students. The treatment of weak students is carried out by formation of quality circle. The faculties and instructors are the members and one of the senior faculties is the leader. In the Quality Circle meetings, they take strategies to improve the performance of weak students. The process involves guiding, monitoring assignment submissions, counseling, evaluation etc. The weak students are also taught by taking micro classes and motivated ethically through great people quotes. The examination tips along with the activities to be followed during academic study are stressed.


Introduction
One has to look over the sentence "Students Life is a Golden life".In ancient system of education system in India Gurukulas were educating.
Throughout the centuries and from past two decades of this century in education system, there are lots of changes occurred.Now a day's student centered learning getting more and more importance.
The students entering into engineering field were taught basic subjects like mathematics, physics and chemistry during pre-university education.There are several categories of students starting from bright to average.The students who are just qualified enter into engineering field; many of them rectified their pattern of study habits and achieve good results in their career due to their hard nature of working.But most of the students do not overcome the inertia in their study pattern.It may be due to not understanding the subjects, not having grasping power, language problem, rich financial positions of the family, environmental problems, food, residence, not having responsibility from family side, entertainment facilities, mobiles, internet, not attending classes, self fear and not to ask anything to faculties, a bad friends circle, not interested in the field and many more.The Quality Circle will be proposed by using the faculties of the same class along with laboratory instructors.The counseling of weak students makes them to habitulize in contacting the faculty with more interest and enthusiasm.
The cause and effect diagrams will depict the actions and treatment to be taken during Quality Circle meetings.After the first test lot of time will be available for the weak students to rectify their problems in understanding of the critical subjects.Thus the efforts are put by the authors in diagnosing the weak students and treatment process towards the improvement of weak students.

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Study ProcessIn engineering education there are eight semesters in almost all braches.Each semester consists of at least five subjects and two laboratories.Each subject is having 25 marks for internal assessment and 100 marks for theory examination.To pass examination the student has to acquire 50 out of 125 marks.Some of the subjects are theoretical in nature and some are analytical based.The internal assessment tests will be based on the average of best two tests.Usually three tests are conducted.Fig.1shows the various factors inclusive of health.The Fig.2shows environmental, residential, study management etc which affect the performance during academic semester.The following paragraphs illustrate the identification of critical subjects in each semester and identification of weak students.4.0 Identification of Critical subjects though Pareto Analysis The Pareto analysis [12] is carried out to identify the critical subjects after first Internal Assessment Test.For example, the following Pareto analysis is made based on the first internal test for V semester E & C and V semester Mechanical.The Pareto analysis is shown Fig.3 and Fig.4 respectively for mechanical and E & C students.The student who scores below 10 is identified as weak student.The weak students are identified after first internal test.The critical subjects of V Semester Mechanical are Turbo Machine, Dynamics of Machinery and Energy Engineering.Similarly for Semester E&C the critical subjects are Digital Signal Processing, Information and Coding and Management 5. Cause and Effect Diagrams Ishikawa cause and effect diagrams [13] for weak student and also towards the achievement of improved performance are shown in Fig.5 and Fig.6 respectively.The members of the Quality Circle include Faculties and Instructors who handle laboratories.Firstly, the formation of the committee should be assigned to a group leader of the particular class.Senior faculty may be treated as group leader.The leader can call meetings and fix up the strategies to be applied for the improvement of weak students.The instructors can take keen interest to actively participate in the process to collect solutions, assigned work and incase of counseling etc and assist in successfully implementation of the Quality circle strategies.Once in fifteen days a meeting may be conducted regarding to check the submissions of students assignments, solutions to problems of internal assessments etc.The weak students shall be counseled for his lack of knowledge in each subject.The respective faculty may guide them by providing notes, text books, pdf files, ppts and even video CDS' etc.The faculty may send e-notes through emails.Quality Circle Duties  Formation of committee  Conduct first meeting after Internal Test-I  Discuss with members and take decision regarding strategies to be applied  Instructors are to be directed to collect the submissions of weak students during their Labhours or in slack time  Call parents for the counseling of the weak students and plan strategies to improve the performance  Advise the weak students to perform well and take them to confidence  Record the submissions, parent meeting etc 5. Planning of Analytical Subjects Each student has to take first course plan i.e., the content of each subject.Each subject consists of 8 chapters.Each chapter deals with theory, derivations, problems and solutions.The following parameters will affect students' performance during each semester. Regularity in attending classes  Taking notes and grasping  Analyzing the technical reasons while solving problems  Doing home assignments  Collection of Text and Reference Books  Developing capability to solve exercise and examination problems without help of others The regular attendance along with skills of grasping technical skills, reasoning, home assignments, and problem solving techniques will enhance students' performance.

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Fig.5 Cause and effect diagram of a weak student

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Don't Do these:  Don't skip classes  Don't spend time unnecessarily  Don't involve in such activities which irritate faculty and staff  Don't behave rude and rough  Don't wander here and there unnecessarily  Don't shout rudely in campus  Don't try to cheat in examination/tests  Don't use harsh words for any one  Don't keep books, notes here and there  Don't ask any material or geometrical instruments during test/examination  Don't use un-clean dresses  Don't involve in criticizing others for some or small mistakes  Don't be away from ethics or ethical standards 6.3 Advantages of the process proposed  Weak students get benefited  Parents will be happy  Since weak students are identified early they get ample time to recover  Weak students may develop competency in achieving good results because of motivation and support  Students and Teacher relationship will be in very good harmony Examination Tips  Utilize time effectively to solve all problems  If the examination duration if 3hours then the time available for each question carries 40 minutes  Some questions take less time and some take more time, hence utilize time factor judiciously  Attend easy and well known answers first and then give priority to solve other  Even if you solve few questions answer them 100% correctly  Be calm and quiet before examination  Maintain good health during examination period 7. Conclusions Through the Pareto analysis critical subjects of each semester are determined and also weak students are identified on the basis of marks scored in first internal test.