Outcome Based Education: An Evaluation from SOs to PLOs

Abstract

The main processes of outcome-based education management are setting learning outcomes, measuring, evaluating learning results, and improving. Teachers must plan exercises, homework, classroom activities, midterm exams, and final exams that are consistent and align with program outcomes and educational standards. The proposed Outcome-Based Education (OBED) Web Application supports administrators and faculty staff for program and course management. After administrators or course committees designed the program learning outcomes to meet the referred educational standards (ex. TQF and TABEE), this web app supports their alignment PLOs to courses. Then, faculty staff can create expected course learning outcomes connected to the assigned PLOs. In addition, the system supports data transfer from the learning management system. With this web app, administrators and teachers can observe student outcomes from student activity results compared with the expected program learning outcome reported by course, cohort, or individual student. Therefore, teachers can adjust activities during the semester to get much closer to the target expected PLOs. Moreover, by OBED app support, semester assessment reports are ready to use according to the form prescribed by departments and educational standards.