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By Peter Sellick, published 9/10/2006Welcome to outcomes based education - a slow plod to a destiny already prescribed by someone at a distance from the class.
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E.G. SCIENCE & MATHS should be VERY outcomes based. Get your science or maths wrong and the next space shuttle goes down in a screaming heap.
I think 'outcomes' based education is better described as 'training'.
I did a course on this once, and the idea of having an educational goal for 'training' purposes is pretty much the ONLY way you can approach it.
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
a) Draw connecting tracks on a screen joining components.
b) Modify and create library symbols for new components
c) Transform the created connectivity into manufacturable art work.
d) Create a bill of materials.
ASSESSMENT
You will be deemed to have attained this goal if:
a) You can do it correctly.
b) You can do it within a specified time period (based on a standard model/schematic)
There is no other way to go with training for real world activity.
SELLS SAID:
"The educational process is subverted because our destination has already been set. So it does not matter how well the teacher excites the interest of the class or what the members of the class bring to the classroom, the destination will be the same"
errrr...YES.. the destination had jolly well BETTER be the same.. of we will be building an Eiffel tower instead of the Sherman Tank we were intending to make !
SELLS ur reading too many of dem liberal theology works :)
There is Education
-to perform specified tasks' (training ?)
-to approach problems from many angles and arrive at valid conclusions.
(the power of observation and critical thinking ?)
It seems to me that a different approach is needed for the Sciences and Humanities/Arts.
If we applied 'training objectives' approach to Art appreciation, we would probably end up with a blinkered graduate.
If we applied 'critical thinking' to science in a subjective way, some of our planes would fly.....into the ground