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Outcome Based Education

Scope Note: 
The effort, often by a state or local education agency, to organize all the features of schooling (including aims, curriculum, instruction, and assessment) so as to produce specifically delineated results (often including noncognitive as well as cognitive results) and generally with the expectation that all students will demonstrate such results
Category: Educational Process: Societal Perspectives
Broader Terms
Education
Narrower Terms
N/A
Use this term instead of
OBE
Outcomes Based Education
Results Based Education
Related Terms
Academic Standards
Accountability
Behavioral Objectives
Competency Based Education
Educational Objectives
Equal Education
Mastery Learning
Outcomes of Education
Added to ERIC: 8/22/1995