3.1: Outcome-Based Education

Question 1

means clearly focusing and
organizing everything in an educational system around what
is essential for all students to be able to do successfully at
the end of their learning experiences (Spady & Uy. 2014)

Answer 1

Outcome-Based Education (OBE)

Question 2

a process that involves the restructuring of
curriculum, assessment and reporting practices in education
to reflect the achievement of higher order learning and
mastery rather than accumulation of course credits (Trucker,
2004)

Answer 2

Outcome-Based Education (OBE)

Question 3

implies the best way to learn is to first
determine what needs to be achieved. Once the desired results or exit outcomes have been determined, the strategies, processes, techniques and means are put in place
to achieve the predetermine goals. In essence, it is a working-backwards with students as the center of the
learning-teaching milieu (CHED CMO # 46 s. 2012)

Answer 3

Outcome-Based Education (OBE)

Question 4

clear learning results that we want students to demonstrate at the end of significant learning experiences (Spady & Uy. 2014)

Answer 4

Outcomes

Question 4

All learners can learn and succeed; success breeds success and “teaching institutions control the conditions of success.

Answer 4

OBE Philosophy

Question 5

sets of learning competencies that enable learners to perform complex tasks/functions/roles (CHED CMO # 46 s. 2012)

Answer 5

Outcomes

Question 6

4 questions that guide the OBE premises

Answer 6

1. What do we want students to learn, to do, and to value?
2. Why do we want them to learn these, do these and to value these?
3. How can we best help students to learn, do, and value these? What
   processes and procedures should be put in place?
4. How will we know that students after finishing the programs with
   us have learned these, can do these and value these?

Question 7

WHAT and WHETHER students learn
successfully is more important than
WHEN and HOW they learn something.

Answer 7

paradigm

Question 8

Enumerate the components of the OBE pyramid

Answer 8

Paradigm&raquo_space; Purposes&raquo_space; Premises&raquo_space; Principles&raquo_space; Practices

Question 9

Focus on what learners
will be able to do
successfully

Answer 9

Clarity of focus

Question 10

Do not learn the same
thing in the same way at
the same time

Answer 10

Expanded opportunity

Question 11

Establish high challenging
performance standards

Answer 11

High Expectations

Question 12

Begin curriculum design
with a clear definition of
the significant learning
that learners are to
achieve by the end of
their formal education

Answer 12

Design Down

Question 13

an approach that focuses and organizes the
educational system around what is essential for all learners to know, value, and be able to do to achieve a desired level of competence.

Answer 13

OBE

Question 14

the sets of competencies (related
knowledge, skills, and attitudes) that all learners are expected to demonstrate. Institutional or program outcomes
may also emphasize lifelong learning.

Answer 14

Program outcomes

Question 15

Outcomes that are expected from a certain course and these are assessed and evaluated through various measurement tools

Answer 15

Learning Outcomes

Question 16

Sets of competencies, expressing what the student will know, understand or be able to do after completion of a process of learning

Answer 16

Learning Outcomes

Question 17

Statements that describe significant and essential learning that learners have achieved, and can reliably demonstrate at
the end of the course

Answer 17

Learning outcomes