CHAPTER 1 Outcomes – Based Education

CHAPTER 1

Outcomes – Based Education

Mark Jones  M. Delgado                                                                              BSEd II - English

 

OBE is an approach in planning, delivering and assessing instruction. It is concerned with planning instruction that is focused on outcomes, choosing the methodology that leads to the intended outcomes and an assessment process that determines the attainment of intended outcomes.

The CHED Memorandum 46.s. 2012 - mandates outcomes-based education standards for higher education institutions. While the Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum – K to 12 Curriculum of the Department of Education introduced content standards, performance standards and competency standards. Moreover, the Technical Education Skills Development Authority used competency standards.

In 1994, Spady gave four Learning Principles of OBE

1.    Clarity of focus

-       Clearly focused on what they want students to know, understand and be able to do.

2.    Designing down

-       Once the intended outcomes are clear, teachers design their instruction.

3.    High Expectations

-       Teachers should establish high, challenging standards of performance in order to encourage students to engage deeply on what they are learning.

4.    Expanded Opportunities

-       Teachers must strive to provide expanded opportunities. Most students can achieve high standards if they are given appropriate opportunities.

Outcomes in Different Levels

IILOs

Institutional Intended Learning Outcomes

(Institutional Outcomes)

PILOs

Program Intended Learning Outcomes

(Program Outcomes)

CILOs

Course Intended Learning Outcomes

(Course Outcomes)

ILOs

Instructional Learning Outcomes

(Instructional Outcomes)

Two Approaches in Spady’s OBE Paradigm

Traditional/Translational OBE

-       Emphasizes student mastery of traditional subject – related academic outcomes and some cross discipline outcomes.

Transformational OBE

-       Emphasizes long – term, cross – curricular outcomes that are related directly to students’ future life roles.

This means Outcomes – Based Education moves from subject – specific outcomes and cross discipline outcomes to long – term, cross – curricular outcomes that are directly related to students’ future life roles.

Reflection

            OBE is an educational theory that bases each part of an educational system around goals. By the end of the educational experience, each student should have achieved the goal. It makes the student aware of what they are learning, why they are learning it, and what they should do when they are learning.

            Engrossing myself into this chapter, I have found out that this Chapter 1 – OBE Curriculum bestowed different knowledge and ideas to us studentry. It showed the definition of OBE as a curriculum in unison with its several factors. OBE is an approach that mainly focused on the intended or target outcomes by an institution, program, course and even instructional outcomes. I have found out that this curriculum coincides with the current curriculum in the basic education of the Department of Education which is K-12 Program wherein it also focuses on the learning outcomes they wanted to achieve by the students. It gives emphasis to the performance and competency standards of the students if they are able to demonstrate and perform what they have learned. In addition, the levels, principles and approaches of intended learning outcomes were appended to my background knowledge in OBE Curriculum.

            As a becoming learning facilitator, I should be engaged in this approach because this is the ongoing curriculum of the Enhance Basic Education of the Department of Education which I will step into the future. I will employ this approach in my learning procedure in which the students would be encouraged that they are obliged to demonstrate the learning what they have gained. It is meeting the focal point of this approach which is the outcome that is said to be effective learning. By engaging them into this approach, it will help me mould my students to be competent in order to reach the objectives and goals of learning.

            Therefore, embodied with this concept, this will enables an institution to produce competent students to enter the global job market and be prepared in working in the 21^st Learning Century.