Talk:Outcome-based education/Archive 1

Are there connections between this and the behaviorist school of thought? --Seb

The definition given sounds like it's written by a critic; it make one wonder why anyone would advocate it. Is there something that would be NPOV? --Eric

Well, like all educational theories that make it to the stage of being implemented by state legislatures, there are many aspects to OBE. Give it a day or two and more folks will weigh in. On the other hand, I think it has disappeared from the current educational politics radar screens - I haven't heard the term in public in 3 or 4 years. Seb, in my experience OBE never had the rigor of actual behaviorism, but then I experienced it not as a university research area but as a high school teacher being forced to attend 'training seminars' in how to implement a legislatively mandated practice. --MichaelTinkler, who would sometimes rather forget having been a high school Latin teacher...


 * I think OBE is more or less what Kentucky is implementing, via the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) they passed 10 or 12 years ago. I think it just isn't getting as much public debate as it used to. --Wesley

It is being introduced into South Africa now, heavily based on an Australian model that even the Australians are backing away from ... clasqm