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'''Outcome-based education''' ('''OBE''') is an educational philosophy that states that education ought to be aimed at producing particular educational outcomes--particularly, giving students a particular, minimum level knowledge and abilities--and that curricula and methods should be designed in order to produce that outcome--to give students such knowledge and abilities. Thus OBE encourages us to judge educational programs on their outcomes. |
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'''Outcome-based Education''' is an educational philosophy that states that it isn't important if a child learns factual information during education, but rather its objective is to significantly change the child's behavior. |
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In the mid-1980's, many state legislatures began to put in place |
In the mid-1980's, many state legislatures began to put in place programs justified as OBE programs. |
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There is a controversy surrounding OBE in the U.S. (''please describe, fairly...'') |
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Revision as of 19:39, 17 January 2002
Outcome-based education (OBE) is an educational philosophy that states that education ought to be aimed at producing particular educational outcomes--particularly, giving students a particular, minimum level knowledge and abilities--and that curricula and methods should be designed in order to produce that outcome--to give students such knowledge and abilities. Thus OBE encourages us to judge educational programs on their outcomes.
In the mid-1980's, many state legislatures began to put in place programs justified as OBE programs.
There is a controversy surrounding OBE in the U.S. (please describe, fairly...)