1. OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION – AN INTRODUCTION
OBE
OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION – AN INTRODUCTION
Introduction to OBE
Prof Jahid

2. Outline What is Accreditation?
Accreditation Authority: Washington Accord, BAETE
What is Outcome Based Education (OBE)?
Accreditation Criteria
Components of OBE
Mission and Vision of a program
Program Educational Objective (PEO)
Program Outcome (PO)
Course Outcome (CO)
What changes to be made?
Introduction to OBE
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3. Accreditation of Academic Programs
Accreditation is a quality assurance review process to determine if educational programs meet certain standards of quality
Standards for accreditation are set by a peer review board whose members include faculty from various accredited universities
Accreditation done by an external body
Examples: Washington Accord, ABET, Sydney Accord, Dublin Accord etc
Introduction to OBE
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4. Accreditation of Academic Programs
Accreditation of a program recognizes and acknowledges the value of transforming a student into a capable engineer with sound knowledge of fundamentals and an acceptable level of professional skill
Main objectives
Graduates acquire a required set of attributes of national and international standards
Required a mechanism for continual improvement of the program through evaluation and feedback
Introduction to OBE
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5. Washington Accord
Washington Accord is an international agreement for engineering degrees between the bodies responsible for accreditation in its signatory countries
Agreement recognizes that there is substantial equivalence of programs accredited by signatories
Graduates of accredited programs in any of the signatory countries are recognized by the other signatory countries as having met the academic requirements for entry to the practice of engineering
Introduction to OBE
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6. Washington Accord
Established in 1989 and covers only undergraduate engineering degrees under Outcome Based Education (OBE) approach
Full signatories as of 2018 are Australia (1989), Canada (1989), Ireland (1989), New Zealand (1989), UK (1989), USA (1989) Hong Kong (1995), South Africa (1999), Japan (2005), Singapore (2006), Korea (2007), Taiwan (2007), Malaysia (2009), Turkey (2011), Russia (2012), India (2014), Sri Lanka (2014), China (2016), Pakistan (2017), Peru (2018)
Introduction to OBE
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7. Washington Accord
Provisional signatories are Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Mexico, Philippines and Chile
Provisional Signatories are recognized as having appropriate systems and processes in place to develop towards becoming a full signatory
Introduction to OBE
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8. BAETE
BAETE: Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education, Bangladesh
BAETE provides accreditation to a Program that is offered by an institution of higher learning approved by an appropriate authority
The program shall be of a duration of four years, after twelve years of schooling
The program shall include sound foundations in science and mathematics leading to the professional practice of engineering
Introduction to OBE
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9. OBE – Paradigm Shift Existing Program of MIST Proposed OBE system
Input based system
Quantitative assessment
CQI not important
Proposed OBE system
OBE is an educational process
Outcome based assessment
Directed/focused at achieving certain specified outcomes in terms of individual student learning
Strong emphasis on CQI
Outcomes – key things students should understand and be able to do or the qualities they should develop
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10. Who can apply
Program approved by an appropriate authority (ie Govt. or UGC)
Program duration is 4 years
Admission after at least 12 years of schooling
At least one batch has graduated
Minimum total credit hours is 130
(1 Cr of lecture  750 minutes of formal contact)
(1 Cr of lab  1500 minutes of formal contact
Program follows Outcome Based Education
Steps: System in place  System in practice  CQI
Introduction to OBE
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11. Accreditation Criteria
1. Organization and Governance 2. Financial and Physical Resources 3. Faculty 4. Students 5. Academic Facilities and Teaching Support 6. Curriculum and Teaching-learning processes 7. Program Educational Objectives 8. Program Outcomes and Assessments 9. Continuous Quality Improvement 10. Interactions with the Industry
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12. Accreditation Criteria
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13. Evaluation Based on the 10 criteria
Each criteria is holistically judged against the benchmark requirements in terms of
Compliance – satisfies requirement. No corrective measure needed
Concern – broadly in compliance but needs improvement to avoid potential non-compliance
Weakness – Lacks strength of compliance. Requires corrective measures
Deficiency – Does not exist or is in an elementary stage. Compliance is required
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14. Accreditation Decisions
No deficiency, no weakness in any criteria
Accreditation for 6 years
No deficiency, weakness not more than 3 criteria
Accreditation for 3 – 5 years
Deficiency in 1 or more criteria or weakness in more than 3 criteria
No accreditation
An non-accreditated program may reapply after 1 year
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15. Main components of OBE
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16. Vision, Mission and PEO of a Program
Vision is a futuristic statement that an institute would like to achieve over a long period of time
Mission is the means by which it proposes to move toward the stated vision
Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) are long term goals (ie 5 years or more after graduation) describing expected achievements of graduates in their career
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17. Course Outcome – CO
Course Outcomes (CO) address the abilities to be attained by students upon the completion of a subject
A subject usually has several COs
Ideally 2 to 4 COs is considered a good practice
Bloom’s Taxonomy action verb and levels need to consider while writing COs
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18. Bloom’s Taxonomy
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19. Program Outcome – PO
Program Outcomes (PO) are short term outcomes (at the point of graduation) describing what students are expected to know and be able to perform
Washington Accord has specified 12 Graduate Attributes as POs of Engineering programs
BAETE has adopted those POs
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20. CQI
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21. What Changes to be made
Course Content: Reviewing course content to suit specified Learning Outcomes, current development, industrial needs, job specifications, professional body requirement (accreditation), etc
Teaching – Learning Methods: Introducing innovative teaching methods/delivery tools to achieve PEOs and POs
Assessment and Evaluation Tools: Introduce variety of assessment tools to measure the achievement of PEOs and POs – appropriate rubrics required
Introduction to OBE
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22. What Changes to be made
Data and Evidence Collection: Collect evidences of process involved and the achievement of the PEOs and POs – complex problem in question, feedback collection etc
OBE Management System: Create an effective OBE management system – through MCAM
Introduction to OBE
Prof Jahid