International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 04 Issue: 07 | July -2017 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2017, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 5.181 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 659 OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION – A REVIEW CM.VIVEK 1 1 Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical engineering, Periyar Maniammai University, vallam ,Tamil Nadu, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract - The aim of this paper is to highlight the areas where the current education system is lacking and how outcome based education system can be successfully implemented to prevent that area where focus is needed. This paper specifically focuses on engineering educational system, how balance between knowledge and practical skill set can be given focus for betterment of educational system and learning Key Words: Outcome based education, Educational system, Rubrics, 1. INTRODUCTION The main purpose of an educational system is imparting knowledge to learning community. A good educational practice should provide flexibility for various types learning community. However traditional education system offers no such flexibility. Students who are adapting to the system get better results, while others don’t. In general, after successfully graduating a course a student becomes smart enough to repeat the orders what their superiors told to do so. But the fact is people who are literate can follow orders if properly guided. The modern learning community finds the traditional educational system as dry due to technological advancements and societal changes. The modern learning community wants to attend a specific course or topic for time period, which they might already learned or not interested. They need a facilitator who can create such an environment in which the learning community has all the tools for attaining the course outcomes. Outcome based education creates a clarity for the learning community what they should accomplish at successful completion of course. The OBE system should be capable of measuring each and every assessment which is done by the learning community. 2. Existing Education system In general most of the engineering educational institutions in India has set a standard marks for identifying students who are pass/ fail. In most of the case scoring 35 % of marks means he/she getting pass in their respective course. For example we shall consider a course in engineering program which contains five chapters. For the evaluation of the course assessment each chapter has equal weight age of 20% marks has been awarded. If a student is able to concentrate only on chapter 1 and 2 he can score almost 35% of weight age which is consider to be pass. This term pass of a specific course denotes the student has successful completed the course even without having the basic knowledge on the remaining chapters. Table -1: Current pass/ fail determination S.N O Ch 1 20 mar ks Ch 2 20 mar ks Ch 3 20 mar ks CH 4 20 mar ks CH 5 20 mar ks T 100 mar ks R P / F 1 17 18 0 0 0 35 P 2 10 10 10 5 0 35 P 3 18 10 0 0 7 35 P 4 0 0 0 20 15 35 P 5 0 0 10 10 15 35 P Ch- chapter no T- Total R- Result P-Pass F-Fail In table 1 we have the marks scored by a student in exam of a course X00 where he scored marks in either two or three chapters only and completely ignoring two or three chapters. But the result however is pass and completion of the course is given to the student. The student without basic knowledge about two chapters is continuing his programme will study another course X01 where X00 is an pre- requisite. By obtaining a course completion of previous course X00 he is eligible to study the new courseX01. Since for learning community this had became a huge burden since they got pass by concentrating in two chapter and ignoring the remaining other chapters. By the completion of the engineering education we can absorb the pattern how the learning community partially neglect few chapters and concentrate on few areas to complete. The current scenario of unemployment is mainly due to areas where the learning community has not able to fulfill the expectations of the employers.