OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION | SISTec Ratibad
“What
matter is not what we teach, it’s how they learn”
According to Spady,
Outcome-based education (OBE) means clearly
focusing and organizing an educational system around what
is essential for all students to be able to do successfully at the end of their
learning experiences. Starting with a clear picture of what is important for
students to be able to do, then organizing the curriculum, instruction, and
assessment to make sure this learning ultimately happens.
Outcome-based education is an educational theory that bases each part of an education system around outcomes. The emphasis in OBE system is on measuring
“Outcome rather than Input”. Each educational agency is responsible for setting
its own outcomes. An education agency which follows the principal of
outcome-based learning addressed the following question in a proper manner.
1.
Are my students learning?
2.
What are they learning?
3.
How well are they learning?
4.
What affects their learning?
5.
How much have they learned?
In all the above questions, you can
see that every question target to learning. Outcome-based education is the only
learning philosophy which targets only to learning of students.
Everything is centered around the
learning rather than teaching. In OBE learning is defined in the form of
Outcome therefore it is known as outcome-based education. Since everything is the outcome, there are certain criteria an outcome
must follow. Good learning outcomes must be
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Achievable
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Observable
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Measurable
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Challenging
OBE
Approach
A teacher in outcome-based education follows the different approach as
shown in Figure-1. A teacher first fixes the outcome they expected from a class
by teaching a particular course. Once the outcome decided and fix then it
became easy to design/decide the strategies and methodologies to achieve that
outcomes.
Figure-1: OBE Approach
Whatever the strategies and methodologies are decided, a teacher must
design and formulate the assessment tools in order to validate the achievement
of learning outcomes. If a teacher designed the strategies to provide the
knowledge up to the application level then assessment must be designed to check
the knowledge up to the application level.
1.
Clarity: Students have a clear
understanding of what is expected on them at the end of the course
2.
Flexibility: Using various teaching
methods and assessment system.
3.
Involvement: Students are expected to
do their own learning to gain a full understanding of the material
4.
Comparison: Compare easily across the
institution allows students to move between institutions with relative ease.
Written
By:
Dr.
Ashish Mishra
Associate
Professor
Sagar
Institute of Science and Technology, Bhopal
Sagar
Group of Institutions® (SGIs) zests towards creating
mindfully creative individuals who can contribute to the development of human
community. As a part of this zeal, the group intends to promote entrepreneurial
nerve in the budding scholars and involve in research and development through
constructive partnership with the industry titans. The institutes also endeavour to develop individuals with scientific temperament
through active participation of faculty and student interactions of B.Tech and
M. Tech. SISTec in the coming
years aims at bringing revolutionary changes in the field of technical
education, so that it embraces itself as one of the top engineering colleges in India. Sagar Institute of Science & Technology (SISTec) has bagged the award of The Most
Innovative College Award 2018 -North Zone. In 2018, Sagar Group of Institutions-SISTec has been selected for
establishing Institution Innovation Council (IIC) at its premises by MHRD,
Govt. of India.
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