Table-I.

Semester, year, and module wise PBL topics, trigger formats, number of faculty objectives and mean ± SD with percentage of similarities of students’ generated learning issues with predetermined faculty objectives against 16 PBL triggers.

Semester/Year/Module	PBL Topics	Trigger Formats	Faculty objectives	Similarities of students’ generated learning issues
				Mean ±SD	%
Semester-I/2011/Biology-I	1. Membrane transport	Textual	4	3±0.73	75.0
	2. Enzyme	Illustration	5	3.63±0.5	72.5
	3. Variation	Textual	6	3.63±0.72	60.4
	4. Biological compound	Illustration	6	3.56±0.96	59.4
Semester-II/2011/Biology-II	5. Homeostasis	Illustration	4	2.94±0.85	73.4
	6. Reproduction	Textual	5	3.56±0.63	71.3
	7. Biotechnology	Textual	6	3.88±0.81	64.6
	8. Immunology	Illustration	6	3.5±0.63	58.3
Semester-I/2012/Biology-I	9. Ultra structure of cell	Illustration	4	3.69±0.79	76.6
	10. Cell cycle	Textual	4	2.88±0.89	71.9
	11. DNA and protein synthesis	Textual	5	3.31±0.48	66.3
	12. Photosynthesis	Illustration	6	3.69±0.79	61.5
Semester-II/2012/Biology-II	13. Hormones	Illustration	5	3.94±0.77	78.8
	14. Locomotion	Textual	4	3.06±0.85	76.6
	15. Quantitative ecology	Textual	5	3.5±0.63	70.0
	16. Development	Illustration	6	3.5±0.89	58.3