Towards Effective Laboratory Instruction

Laboratory work in Engineering Colleges and Polytechnics forms a major part of providing instruction to the students. The present methods of imparting laboratory instruction do not appear to be effective. An attempt is made in this paper to analyse and identify lacunae and suggestions are made to reorient and reorganise the laboratory work so that instruction become effective. It is hoped that all those concerned with laboratory instruction would consider the thoughts expressed and make attempts to improve laboratory instruction.