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Outcome Based Education
The first time you read this poem
I need you to remember something
They do not teach you in school
Like Doctor’s, Lawyers, Soldiers,
Teachers don’t have an oath, not at all
Yet, students aren’t footballs
They aren’t
The student aren’t born dull or bright
Teachers make them that way, a plight
Obe comes for rescue to make learning, a delight
Yet, is content about Obe too abstract to understand?
Is the material about Obe too tough to grasp and comprehend?
Do a new way to be adopted to explain and define Obe?
Its an easy concept once you agree
Outcomes are not scores, averages or grade point
Only needs is to look education from a new viewpoint
Obe is holistic way of enlightening and empowering learners
It is a paradigm shift to make them achievers
Obe is what they’ll be able to know and do
Skills and knowledge they need to have at debut
Course Outcome(CO) is what they’ll know after each course
This is the skill they will acquire without any force
Program Specific Outcomes(PSO) are specific to program,
USPs of department, its hologram
What they’ll be able to do at time of graduation
accomplishment, achievement, acclamations
Program Educational Objectives(PEOs) are
the achievements they’ll have in their career
Indicates what they’ll achieve and
how they perform during first few years
Program Outcomes (POs) is what
they’ll be able to know and do upon graduation
Skills, knowledge and behaviour
they’ll acquire, will give their career acceleration.
Obe wants all learner to learn and be successful
1 paradigm 2 purpose 3 premises 4 principles
5 Practices of obe makes you accountable
1 paradigm what and whether students learn
successfully is more important
than how and when they learn
2 Purpose maximize condition of success for all students,
send fully equipped student into world
to make their dreams unfurl
3 Premises All students can succeed and learn
maybe not on same day and same way,
Success breads success ,
colleges control condition of success
4 principles clarity of focus on outcomes,
expended opportunity to all,
high expectation from all,
designing curriculum to attain outcome
5 practices define outcome, design curriculum,
deliver instruction, document result, determine advancement
These are 1 paradigm 2 purpose 3 premises
4 principles 5 Practices for Obe accomplishment
----------------By Dr. Kshitij Shinghal
Special thanks to Dr. William Spady and references from his book “ Outcome Based Education: Critical Issues
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Dr. Kshitij Shinghal