Outcomes-Based Education vs Traditional Way of Teaching

This blog talks about the differences of the two educational systems.

What will be the differences of outcomes-based education and traditional way of teaching? Which is better? The answer of these questions will be here in our blog.

Outcomes-Based Education (OBE)

Yields students to become outputs rather than inputs.
It is a student-centered method, the teachers focuses on helping the students to develop their skills.
All the learning objectives will clearly attain in order to achieve the progression.
It adjust the strengths and weaknesses of the students to further develop their knowledge and skills.
It have a hands on activities that they will develop their skills through their experiences.
It provide a clear picture of what is essential for the students able to do.
Rather than just listening and learning, outcomes-based education provides students demonstrations to task and what they are able to do.
It defines the outcomes of what students may achieve in the entire curriculum.
It provide outcomes specifically learning outcomes which tells what a student can provide as a result of a learning experience.
More students is set up to succeed and improve their knowledge and skills.

According to Sessums (2016), Outcomes-based Education approach is a learning structure which enables the students to improve their knowledge and skills through their own experience of activities that are given by the teachers. It is a student-centered form of learning where the students are the one being focused on achieving the objectives and goals. Spady (as cited by the Center of Education Innovation, 2016). Outcomes-based Education defines the fine picture of what could the students be able to do, that they are independent in doing a task that are said by the teachers for them to make using their own knowledge and skills in order to improve.

Traditional Way of Teaching

Teacher centered, where the teacher is discussing for the students to understand.
A model of education that it just transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas to students.
No hands on activities that the students will experience.
It is all about recitation from the teacher, while the students are just sitting and listening.
Assessing or memorizing what did the teacher discuss to students.
No activities that evaluate the knowledge that the students acquire or what you call performance task.
Familiarizing and memorizing what the teachers lecture and in evaluating the students learning there is a written assessment in the end of the curriculum or what you call an examination.
Some students succeed, because of lacked of knowledge and experience that they need to continue in a higher education such like colleges.
Students are dependable to teachers who a just teaching without any demonstrations that the students need in order to understand more.
The time is fixed specifically students learn memorizing the lectures of the teaching in the end of a quarter.

According to CCSS (2017), Traditional teaching is an old fashioned way of teaching where the teacher is lecturing while the students are just sitting and listening. It is also about the students' oral recitation where the students will recite when called by the teacher. In this system, students are expected to study and memorize what the teacher lectures with no hands-on experiences that will surely improve the abilities of the students to proceed. A teacher-centered way of education where the main knowledge that the students can get is from the teachers (Huson, 2019). They are depending on the teachers were the teachers are just lecturing and let the students memorize what they discuss.