The move to outcomes-based assessment is now the vogue, but it has come at a price says Alan Barcan.Outcomes-based education (sometimes called outcome-based education) is one of the numerous educational initiatives which have proliferated over the last two decades. Teachers and parents have had to grapple with a flood of confusing terminologies promising panaceas for the ills of schooling. The new jargon includes profiles, key learning areas, benchmarks, frameworks and competencies. Tasmania con…
