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WHAT IS IT?
Outcome –based Education: Critical Issues and Answers
William G. Spady (1994)
William G. Spady
Outcome-Based Education
means:
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deliberate attempt to engage by most advanced models of
exit outcome design and development
What does it mean to base education on outcomes?
- defining, deciding, organizing, structuring, focusing,
and operating what the system does according to
some consistent standard or principle
“Outcome-based" directly
implies that outcomes
must take precedence over time.
examples of out-come based
model
• Outcome-based systems go back at least 500 years to the
craft guilds of the Middle Ages in Europe.