Spady OBE Developer


"Bill Spady, the person most closely associated with the term OBE, would characterize the Johnson City program as transitional, because it emphasizes mastery of traditional academics along with some cross-disciplinary outcomes such as the ability to work in groups. It is not an example of the transformational approach that Spady advocates, which treats subject matter as "enabling outcomes", related to the "performance roles" (p. 18) students will play in the future."

Source: "Is Outcome-Based Education Dead?", Ron Brandt, Educational Leadership, March 1994, p. 5.
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