The OBE Pyramid (1)

Paradigm:
.....WHETHER students learn something is more important than WHEN they learn it(2)

Purposes:
.....1) Equip ALL students with the knowledge, competencies, and orientations needed for future success
.....2) Implement programs and conditions that maximize learning success for ALL students(3)

Premises:
.....1) All students can learn and succeed
.....2) Success breeds success
.....3) Schools control the conditions of success(4)

Principles:
.....1) Clarity of focus on culminating outcomes of significance
.....2) Expanded opportunity and support for learning success
.....3) High expectations for all to succeed(5)
.....4) Design down from your ultimate, culminating outcomes(6)

Practices:
.....Define outcomes
.....Design curriculum
.....Deliver instruction
.....Document results
.....Determine advancement(7)

Notes:
1. "Outcome Based Education Restructuring Presentation" handbook, High Success Network; Eagle, Colorado, 1992, p. 10.
2. Ibid., p. 6
3. Ibid., p. 16
4. Ibid., p. 17
5. See Bell Curve
6. Ibid., p. 25
7. Ibid., p. 10