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Analysis of Outcome-based educational model in Engineering Education with preliminary Findings

  • Dewani, Amirita (Department of Software Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology) ;
  • Bhatti, Sania (Department of Software Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology) ;
  • Memon, Mohsin Ali (Department of Software Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology)
  • Received : 2021.11.24
  • Accepted : 2022.03.08
  • Published : 2022.03.31
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Abstract

The notion of outcome-based educational paradigm and its adaptability for higher education has become a recent growing and quite stirring trend. In the year 2017-18, this educational philosophy has been embraced by some of the higher educational institutions in Pakistan as well. This research attempts to investigate OBE and non-OBE systems in the context of students learning outcomes and academic attainment levels in engineering education in Pakistan. The study has been conducted on undergraduate students of MUET, Jamshoro, Sindh Pakistan. The students of the software engineering department are taken as the sample. Student cohorts are formed i.e., OBE and non-OBE (traditional/teacher-centered approach) cohorts. The summative assessments of semester exams are used for data analysis descriptive statistics and independent samples t-test is performed to set up the group statistic. The findings of this study show that, in terms of students' performance, the OBE system outperforms the traditional system and this transition in engineering institutions might be beneficial in the future.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by department of software engineering, MUET, Jamshoro, Pakistan in 2021.

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