Outcomes-based education focuses classroom instruction on the skills and competencies students must demonstrate upon exiting. It clearly organizes an education system around essential learning outcomes. Outcomes can be immediate competencies acquired in a course or deferred abilities applied later in a profession. Program objectives are broad goals of what a program aims to achieve, while student learning outcomes are operational definitions of the objectives stated as active verbs. Assessment in an outcomes-based system is ongoing, integrates different abilities like critical thinking, and evaluates what students can do instead of just content remembered.

1. OUTCOMES-BASED
EDUCATION (OBE)
Recent Development in Quality
Assurance
BY: Disha Singh
Asst. Prof (ECE)

2. OBE Meaning
 Outcome-based education means clearly focusing and organizing
everything in an education system around what is essential for all
students to be able to do successfully at the end of their learning
experience.
 Outcome- meaning
Outcomes means - Goal, Purpose, End result
 Outcomes, the end-products of instructional process, may be
observable or internal changes in the learner

3. OBE- Applied to Driving School

4. 1. Shift of Instructional Focus
• Outcomes-Based Education (OBE)
 focuses classroom instruction
on the accomplishments (skills/competencies)
that students must demonstrate when they exit.

5. 2. The Outcomes of Education:
Focus of Accreditation
(a)Immediate Outcomes:
Competencies/skills acquired upon completion
of a subject, a grade/year level, a segment of the
program, or a program itself.

6. Examples of Immediate Outcomes
• Analytic ability
• Problem-solving skill
• Ability to communicate in writing, reading, speaking
and mathematically skill in creative expression

7. Examples of Immediate Outcomes
• Skill in technology utilization
• Passing the licensure examination
• Initial job placement

8. The Outcomes of Education: Focus of
Accreditation
(b)Deferred Outcomes:
Ability to apply cognitive and affective
skills/competencies in various aspects of the
professional and workplace practice.

9. Examples of
Deferred Outcomes
• Promotion in job position/rank as evidence of
work competence, skill and social relation.
• Success in professional practice or occupation as
evidence in skill in career planning, health and
service and continuing education.

10. 3. Program Objectives (P.O)
• Broad goals that the program expects to achieve
stated from the point of view of the faculty or of
the program itself such as “to develop/to provide/
to motivate, etc.”

11. Program Objectives (P.O)
• Objectives are expressed as:
-cognitive, affective goals.
-focused on the well-rounded and profession-
specific development of the students.
• These are deferred outcomes of an educational program
which are observable and verifiable years after graduation.

12. 4. Student Learning Outcomes
(S.L.O)
• Are operational definitions of each of the program objectives.
stated as active transitive verbs such as “to demonstrate/ to
express/ to illustrate/ to apply” are immediate outcomes of
education.

13. 5. Assessment of outcome-based
learning:
• Active learners
• Learners are assessed on an ongoing basis
• Critical thinking, reasoning, reflection and action
• An integration of knowledge, learning relevant and connected
to real-life

14. • Learner-centered. Lecturer is facilitator. Lecturer constantly
uses group work and teamwork
• Curricula seen as guides that allow lecturers to be innovative
and creative
• Learners take responsibility for their learning. Pupils motivated
by constant feedback and affirmation

15. • Emphasis on outcomes – what the learner becomes and
understands
• Flexible time-frames allow learners to work at their own pace
• Comment and input from the wider community is encouraged
• Outcomes will be assessed in different ways and on an on-going
basis.

16. • Assessment is an integral part of the whole system
• Students will not get marked just for remembering subject
content
• Different aspects of the learner’s abilities, such as creativity and
critical thinking will also be assessed.

17. Thank You!