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rific
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The main concepts of OBE are, as have been said, about teaching to the outcomes, found in any syllabus document.
The main idea of OBE is that teachers are no longer teaching students for assessment as much, but for the skills and knowledge outlined in the outcomes. If OBE worked how it was meant to, ranking goes out the window, because students are only competing with themselves, attempting to achieve a more developed understanding of the outcomes, not trying to see who ranks first to improve their educational standing. Oddly enough, OBE doesn't work how it was meant to, for a great many reasons.
The main idea of OBE is that teachers are no longer teaching students for assessment as much, but for the skills and knowledge outlined in the outcomes. If OBE worked how it was meant to, ranking goes out the window, because students are only competing with themselves, attempting to achieve a more developed understanding of the outcomes, not trying to see who ranks first to improve their educational standing. Oddly enough, OBE doesn't work how it was meant to, for a great many reasons.
rific
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There's a bunch of reasons, but the way I see it, there are 2 primary reasons for OBE being something other than the shining peak of education that it was meant to be.
1) Those three little letters - UAI. Students go through our education systems and end up being ranked, this works to the detriment of OBE because it rather effectively undermines the individual achievement OBE develops and encourages.
2) Bad public relations/information campaigns. Many, perhaps most, people still don't understand the rationale behind and benefits of OBE - students, parents, some teachers. Without understanding it, people spend time trying to find flaws with something they don't understand and push to return to the golden days of the past, where education was apparently perfect.
What caused this interest, #23? Just a random thought, or something specific?
1) Those three little letters - UAI. Students go through our education systems and end up being ranked, this works to the detriment of OBE because it rather effectively undermines the individual achievement OBE develops and encourages.
2) Bad public relations/information campaigns. Many, perhaps most, people still don't understand the rationale behind and benefits of OBE - students, parents, some teachers. Without understanding it, people spend time trying to find flaws with something they don't understand and push to return to the golden days of the past, where education was apparently perfect.
What caused this interest, #23? Just a random thought, or something specific?
babikakez
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No one really cared about OBE until the media turned the spotlight on it. Now, all of a sudden, everyone can give an expert criticism. Of course, I'm in that group as well.rific said:
babikakez
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To say it has "attracted some headlines" is quite an understatement. These headlines have been a weekly occurrence for the past two years. Today, for example, The Sunday Times claimed that OBE is causing students to leave high school illiterate and is pushing a unprecedented drive for private tuition. According to my parents (one of whom works in the education sector), that claim is entirely true.#23 said:
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