A study on comparison of four divisions with respect to institutional information and functiong about research, consultancy & extension of colleges of education in Karnataka

Research culture can be ascribed as values and ideas that researchers use to handle research related problems. It is the combination of all the activities, all the thinking, all the collaboration and cooperation carried out to promote the research in faculty members. Higher Education Commission is providing research funding for research projects and publications in renowned research journals. Higher Education Commission provides teachers with training courses on research and research incentives to those who attend these courses. These efforts are made for developing research culture in universities and teacher education institutions. This research paper deals with III criterion of NAAC out of the seven criteria. It is a research study of colleges of education teaching department in which the researcher studied all the six key aspects under the III criterion -research, consultancy and extension. This criterion seeks information on the policies, practices and outcomes of the institutions with reference to research, consultancy and extension. The reason to choose this criterion is that NAAC provides 35% of weightage to it, for colleges of education. It throws light on the efforts and strengths of colleges of education to promote a research culture. Its quality of research and extension work is known all over the nation which distinguishes it from the other institutions in the country and makes it an ideal symbol for the other teacher education institutions. The present research article falls under the purview of quantitative research and hence quantitative methods, such as data collection, analysis, comparison, tabulation and illustration, are used. Among 48 randomly selected colleges of education, I received replies from 19 colleges of education only, and the same data are taken for granted for analysis.