Effectiveness and Efficiency of Course Outcomes Based Assessment Models

Abstract

Outcome Based Assessment (OBA) is one of the recent educational phenomenon that is being increased use especially in high education. This approach applied to improve the learning, increase student mobility and achieve lifelong learning either in traditional learning or in e-learning systems. This study will describe the effectiveness and efficiency of the various outcome based assessment models and will conduct a detailed and comparative analysis of them from different criteria to identify the strengths and limitations of every model. Different factors and criteria will be discussed to evaluate and compare between existing models.