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A method for focusing and organizing school programs and instructional efforts around the clearly defined outcomes students are to demonstrate at the end of the instruction.

Basic Elements:

The principles followed by OBE practitioners include:

• clarity of focus around culminating exit outcomes of significance, defined by each school
• expansion of available time and resources so that all students succeed in reaching the exit outcomes
• consistent, high expectations of 100% success
• explicit relationships between any learning experience, with its design and outcomes, and the ultimate outcomes to which the learning experience is essential.

Under OBE, curriculum design includes these steps:

• discerning future conditions
• deriving exit outcomes
• developing performance indicators
• designing learning experiences
• determining instructional strategies
• delivering instruction
• documenting results
• determining advancement

The following web sites reflect a few of the current thoughts on Outcome Based Education.

Outcome Based Education:  Reform and Curriculum Process

Outcome Based Education and Curriculum Change:  Advocacy, Practice, and Critique

Some Limitations of Outcome Based Education

Outcome Based Education:  Miracle Cure or Plague?