OUTCOMES-BASED EDUCATION: IS IT RIGHT FOR SOCIAL WORK?
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https://doi.org/10.15270/46-3-158Abstract
Outcomes-based education (OBE) has been very much in the news lately. Graeme Bloch’sbook The toxic mix: what’s wrong with SA schools and how to fix it (2009) has receivedwidespread coverage in the press, as have the results of the National Benching Tests Project(HESA, 2009), which demonstrated that a large number of entry-level students at tertiaryinstitutions were not sufficiently competent in academic literacy, quantitative literacy ormathematics to succeed at university without substantial additional help. There are manycomplex reasons for the problems in the South African education system, but the suitabilityoutcomes-based education to address the education challenges in South Africa has beenseriously questioned.Downloads
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