ED5840 - Outcomes Based Teaching and Assessment

Credit points:	04
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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Available to Postgraduate Certificate, BEd (Professional Development) and Master of Education students.

This subject critically reviews outcomes based education (OBE) approaches to curriculum planning, teaching and assessment. Students critically assess issues relating to OBE curriculum development and its similarities with and differences from other recent approaches, including authentic learning and assessment, with a view to identifying key features of OBE and its potential for teaching and learning. Students plan programs using an outcomes based approach and develop appropriate teaching and assessment strategies and programs in curriculum areas relevant to their own work experience.

Learning Outcomes

• assess the potential and possible problems of outcomes based education;
• critically review key features of outcomes based approaches to curriculum and teaching;
• develop curriculum, teaching and assessment programs using an outcomes based approach.

Availabilities
, , Study Period 39
Census Date 22-Jul-2005
Face to face teaching 04-Jul-2005 to 28-Aug-2005
Coord/Lect:	edrjg.
Assessment:	.
, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Coord/Lect:	edrjg.
Method of Delivery:	Printed materials
Assessment:	(30%); (70%).

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