U3.1: Outcome-Based Education

Question 1

Identify the term:
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

Answer 1

outcome-based education (OBE)

Question 2

Identify the term:
a process that involves the restructuring of curriculum, assessment and reporting practices in education to reflect the achievement of higher order learning and mastery than accumulation of course credits

Answer 2

outcome-based education (OBE)

Question 3

Identify the term:
implies that the best way to learn is to first determine what needs to be achieved

Answer 3

outcome-based education (OBE)

Question 4

Enumerate:
put in place once the desired results or exit outcomes have been determined

Answer 4

1. strategies
2. processes
3. techniques
4. means

Question 5

Identify the term:
working-backwards with students as the center of the learning-teaching milieu

Answer 5

outcome-based education (OBE)

Question 6

Identify the term:
clear learning results that we want students to demonstrate at the end of significant learning experiences

Answer 6

outcomes

Question 7

Identify the term:
sets of learning competencies that enable learners to perform complex tasks/ functions/ roles

Answer 7

outcomes

Question 8

Define/ Explain:
OBE Philosophy

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Enumerate:
4 questions that guide OBE premises and philosophy

Answer 9

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 10

Enumerate:
Components of OBE Pyramid

Answer 10

1. paradigm
2. purposes
3. premises
4. principles
5. practices

Question 11

Identify the element of OBE pyramid:
WHAT and WHETHER students learn successfully is more important than WHEN and HOW they learn something.

Answer 11

paradigm

Question 12

Identify the element of OBE pyramid:
1. Ensuring that all students are equipped with the knowledge, competence, and qualities needed to be successful after they exit the educational system.
2. Structuring and operating schools so that those outcomes can be achieved and maximized for all students.

Answer 12

purposes

Question 13

Identify the element of OBE pyramid:
1. All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way.
2. Successful learning promotes even more successful learning.
3. Schools control the conditions that directly affect successful school learning.

Answer 13

premises

Question 14

Enumerate:
4 elements of OBE principles

Answer 14

1. clarity of focus
2. expanded opportunity
3. high expectations
4. design down

Question 15

Determine which OBE element:
on culminating exit outcomes of significance

Answer 15

clarity of focus

Question 16

Determine which OBE element:
support for learning success

Answer 16

expanded opportunity

Question 17

Determine which OBE element:
for all to succeed

Answer 17

high expectations

Question 18

Determine which OBE element:
from culminating outcomes

Answer 18

design down

Question 19

Enumerate:
5 OBE practices

Answer 19

1. Define outcomes
2. Design the curriculum
3. Deliver instruction
4. Document results
5. Determine advancement

Question 20

Identify the term:
the sets of competencies (related knowledge, skills, and attitudes) that all learners are expected to demonstrate; may also emphasize lifelong learning

Answer 20

program outcomes

Question 20

Identify what CHED Memo:
OBE is 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 20

CHED MEMO No. 46, Series 2012

Question 21

Identify the term:
outcomes that are expected from a certain course and these are assessed and evaluated through various measurement tools

Answer 21

learning outcomes

Question 22

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

Answer 22

learning outcomes

Question 23

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

Answer 23

learning outcomes

Question 24

Differentiate traditional and OBE program designs:
focus

Answer 24

traditional: inputs are important
OBE: results are important

Question 25

Differentiate traditional and OBE program designs:
basis

Answer 25

traditional: time-based
OBE: outcomes-based

Question 26

Differentiate traditional and OBE program designs:
learners’ style

Answer 26

traditional: learners are grouped
OBE: learners advance through the courses

Question 27

Differentiate traditional and OBE program designs:
teachers

Answer 27

traditional: subjects and sections are assigned to teachers
OBE: teachers are responsible for outcomes

Question 28

Differentiate traditional and OBE program designs:
learners’ achievement

Answer 28

traditional: accumulate courses and grades leading to a credential
OBE: demonstrate achievement of outcomes