OUTCOMES-BASED-EDUCATION: BASIS

FOR ENHANCED TEACHER

EDUCATION CURRICULUM

DEFINITION OF OUTCOMES

BASED EDUCATION

(OBE)

OUTCOMES BASED EDUCATION (OBE)

- A clearly focusing, and organizing everything in the educational system around the essential for all the students to do successfully at the end of their learning experiences. (W. Spady 1994)

Spady premised that in Outcomes-Based Education:

• All students can learn and succeed, but not at the same time or in the same way.

• Successful learning promotes even more successful learning.

• Schools and teachers control the conditions that will determine if the students are successful in school learning.

FOUR ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES IN

OUTCOMES-BASED EDUCATION

Principle 1: CLARITY OF FOCUS

Principle 2: DESIGNING BACKWARDS

Principle 3: HIGH EXPECTATIONS

Principle 4: EXPANDED OPPORTUNITIES

TEACHING-LEARNING IN OUTCOMES-

BASED EDUCATION

TIPS ON HOW TEACHING-LEARNING BE DONE IN

OUTCOMES-BASED EDUCATION

• Teachers must prepare students adequately.

• Teachers must create a positive learning environment.

• Teachers must help their students to understand, what they have to learn, why they should learn it and how will they know that they have learned.

• Teachers must use a variety of teaching methods.

• Teachers must provide students with enough opportunities to use the new knowledge and skills that they gain.

• Teachers must help students to bring each learning to a personal closure that will make them aware of what they learned.

ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING

OUTCOMES IN OBE

To be useful in OBE systems, assessment should be guided by the following

principles:1. Assessment procedure should be valid.

Procedure & tools should actually assess what one intends to test.

2. Assessment procedure should be reliable. The results should be consistent.

3. Assessment procedure should be fair. Cultural background & other factors should not influence assessment procedure.

4. Assessment should reflect the knowledge and skills that are important to the students.

5. Assessment should tell both the teachers and students how students are progressing.

6. Assessment should support every student’s opportunity to learn things that are important.

7. Assessment should allow individuality or uniqueness to be demonstrated.

8. Assessment should be comprehensive to cover a wide range of learning outcomes.

LEARNER’S RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEARNING

“If you are not willing to learn, no

one can help you. If you are determined to learn no one can

stop you.”

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