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OBE: The Restructuring Of American Society.
There has been a concern for some time throughout America regarding the
quality of public education. Students are graduating from highschool without
adequate knowledge of the three R's. Universities are recruiting a multitude of
incompetent pseudo-scholar ....
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.... factor. This is very important in understanding what OBE is, and what
it intends to do. In the OBE classroom, every aspect of the curriculum is geared
toward achieving a small group of specific goals. To gain an insight into OBE,
it is necessary to learn something about its origins and those promoting it.
B. F. Skinner, a psychologist and learning theorist, developed the
techniques of learning (operant conditioning) based on conditioning phenomena
first analyzed scientifically by Pavlov. Skinner called his technique his
"teaching machine." Skinner thus developed the prin ....
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