Implementation of Outcome-Based Education for a Course

Abstract

Outcome-based education (OBE) is a learning theory based on objectives that derive outcomes for each portion of an instructional scheme. Every student has to accomplish the objectives at the end of the instructional experience. OBE is not limited to well-defined teaching or direct assessment strategies but involves indirect assessments to assist the learners in the attainment of defined outcomes. In this chapter, a case study on a course is described in all aspects of direct and indirect assessments. Initially, a correlation between programme outcomes (POs) and course outcomes (COs) is established duly analyzing the impact of CO on PO. The evaluation of COs using assessment tools are well-defined. The CO attainment percentage is evaluated using statistical methodologies, and the same is categorized to high, medium, and low-level attainments. The achieved level of attainments is correlated to Pos, and the same is adapted for all the courses in order to initiate the corrective action for further improvements in successive years.