What are the ultimate outcomes of all teaching?

Answer 1

Why is there so much confusion about outcome-based education?

Debate about outcome-based education reveals widespread confusion about terminology and concepts. The term "outcomes," "standards" and "goals" frequently are used interchangeably, and individuals disagree about their meanings and applications. These terms also are used indiscriminately to refer to different types of results, including content outcomes students performance outcomes and school performance standards.

Content outcomes describes what students should know and be able to do in particular subject areas. Student performance outcomes describe how and at what level students must demonstrate such knowledge and skills. School performance standards define the quality of education schools must provide in order for students to meet content and/or performance outcomes.

Confusion arises when people often fail to distinguish between outcome-based education as a concept and programs such as the Outcome-Driven Developmental Model of the National Center for Outcome-Based Education.

Another source of confusion about outcomes arises from the variety of levels at which they can be developed and implemented. Connecticut's Common Core of Learning, for example, is a set of content and performance outcomes developed by a national curriculum organization, which have been adopted throughout the country by individual teachers, schools and districts.

Approximately 20 national groups, including the Bradley Commission, the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department of Labor and the New Standards Project, are developing various types of outcomes that are content-specific or integrate several subject areas.

Some states and districts mandate outcomes, while others present them as guidelines. Some states require, for example, that schools "meet or exceed" a certain set of outcomes in order to maintain accreditation. Other states encourage districts and schools to develop and adopt their own outcomes, based on a particular model put forth by the state.


Common Arguments in Favor Common Arguments Against Outcome-Based
of Outcome-Based Education Education

* Promotes high expectations and * Conflicts with admission requirements and
greater learning for all students. practices of most colleges and universities,
which rely on credit hours and
standardized test scores

* Prepares students for life and work * Some outcomes focus too much on feelings,
in the 21st Century. values, attitudes and beliefs, and not enough
on the attainment of factual knowledge.


* Fosters more authentic forms of
assessment (i.e., students write to * Relies on subjective evaluation, rather than
show they know how to use English objective tests and measurements.
well, or complete math problems to
demonstrate their ability to solve
problems.

* Encourages decision making regarding * Undermines local control.
curriculum, teaching methods, school
structure and management at each
school or district level.

Finally, some people confuse outcomes-based education with Mastery Learning, an instructional model conceived by John Carroll in 1963 and developed by Benjamin Bloom. Both outcome-based education and Mastery Learning are based on the assumption that all students can master tasks and materials if given enough time.

" An educated person is also someone who is responsible to his community and country."

Answer 2

All teaching is a regurgitation of knowledge into the universe.

It may or not be absorbed buy another thinking being.

The speaking may be in flowers but the listening may be in pastries, so the only true outcome is that it was offered.

Answer 3

Learning, if the class doesn't learn anything then the teacher and the class are wasting their time.

A top flight professional, a published master of his field is a poor teacher if he can't communicate his ideas to the students, yet this is the kind of teacher most colleges want.

Answer 4

Hopefully students that have learned something!!

Answer 5

K N O W L E D G E

Answer 6

for others to learn