Outcome-Based Teaching and Learning (OBTL): Some Strenghts

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OBTL is a student-centered learning philosophy that focuses on empirically measuring student performance, which are called outcomes as opposed to traditional learning’s emphasis on resources or inputs.  Like in Competency-Based Education, it requires students to demonstrate that they have learned the required skills and content. The following are some of its strengths:
 
Self-evaluative
The students’ outputs measure the students’ performance as well as the teachers’ effectiveness and the deficiency in curriculum which would require corrective actions.

Systematic
It requires identification of not only what students are supposed to learn but also how and to what standard. (What do I intend my students to be able to do after my teaching that they couldn’t do before, and to what standard? How do I supply learning activities that will help them achieve those outcomes? How do I assess them to see how well they have achieved them?)

Pragmatic
It focuses not on how well students have received knowledge, but how they can use it in academically and professionally appropriate ways, such as solving problems, designing experiments, or communicating with clients.

Organized
There are clearly defined outcomes.Itis concerned with curriculum design and ensuring that the contents, delivery, activities, and assessments are all aligned to help facilitate students to attain specific intended learning outcomes.

Holistic
It requires educators to a) identify the outcome of teaching --the Intended Learning Outcome (ILO) or what the learner is supposed to be able to do and at what standard; b) devise Teaching and Learning Activities (TLAs) that require students to apply, invent, generate new ideas, diagnose and solve problems, etc.; c) formulate Assessment Tasks (ATs) that tell how students can use knowledge in academically and professionally appropriate ways, such as solving problems, designing experiments, or communicating with clients.

Student-centered and promotes competencies

It emphasizes the recognition of students’ positive achievements and comparing their current output to their own prior performance which help the students keep track of their progress and to know if such field is suited to them.

How to cite this article:
Jensen dG. Mañebog. “Outcomes-Based Teaching and Learning (OBTL): Some Strengths.” @ www.OurHappySchool.com
 
 
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