What is OBE format?

Outcome-based education or outcomes-based education (OBE) is an educational theory that bases each part of an educational system around goals (outcomes). By the end of the educational experience, each student should have achieved the goal.

What is OBE example?

Outcome-Based Education (OBE) is a student-centric learning model that helps teachers to plan the course delivery and assessment with the end point in mind. For example: A candidate is required to satisfy a particular set of criteria (Program outcome) at the end of a program, say Mechanical Engineering.

What is the role of OBE?

OBE is a powerful education strategy that should be used as a focus for curriculum planning, as a means of making informed discussions about the approaches to teaching and learning be adopted, and as a basis for the assessment of students/trainees and of the education programme itself.

What are the 3 premises under OBE?

(OBE), is founded on three basic premises: All students can learn and succeed (but not on the same day in the same way). Success breeds success. Schools control the conditions of success.

What are the negative points of OBE?

Criticism of Outcome-based Education

• Opposition to testing. Critics claim that existing tests do not adequately measure student mastery of the stated objectives.
• Inappropriate outcomes.
• Lack of evidence that OBE actually works.
• Extra burden on instructors and educational institutions.
• Dislike of something that is not OBE.

Why did the government change from OBE to CAPS?

The CAPS is an adjustment to what we teach (curriculum) and not how we teach (teaching methods). The way the curriculum is written is now in content format rather than outcomes format so it is more prone to traditional teaching methods rather than OBE methods.

Why do I have to shift to OBE?

OBE empowers students to choose what they would like to study and how they would like to study it. Not only does it adapt to a learner’s strengths and weaknesses, but it also provides sufficient time to attain proficiency and fluency in the subject matter.

What are the two levels of OBE?

There are two major types of outcomes in OBE, as defined by Killen (2000) (2000) Standards-referenced assessment: linking outcomes, assessment and reporting.

Which is considered as an enabling outcome?

Enabling outcomes are the stepping stones to terminal outcomes. They describe what the student must know, understand or do in order to achieve the terminal outcome.

What is an exit outcome?

These Exit Outcomes fall into three categories: Success Orientations, Competencies, and Knowledge. Although there are related and overlapping issues and interdependencies among these three categories, they may be identified by the verbs ‘to be’ (Success Orientations), ‘to do’ (Competencies), and ‘to know’ (Knowledge).