Education is what remains....

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school

Albert Einstein

Outcomes Based Learning
Spady(1994) suggests ten categories of outcomes, based on "fundamental life performance roles"(P.21). he suggested that these life performances roles require complex applications of many kinds of knowledge and all kinds of competence as people confront the challenges surrounding them in their social systems. He proposed that no matter what major life roles learners faced after formal education(worker,employer,parent,etc.), they would need to be competent in his Ten Inter-Related Life Performance Roles.

The Life Performance Roles Spady(1994) suggested were:

1. Learner and Thinker.
2. Listener and Communicator.
3. Implementer and Performer.
4. Problem Finder and Solver.
5. Planner and Designer.
6. Creator and Producer.
7. Teacher and Mentor.
8. Supporter and Contributor.
9. Team Member and Partner.
10. Leader and Organiser.

Spady suggested that one way to prepare students for these life roles was to "continually engage students in both individual and team activities that explore important issues or phenomena, use multiple media and technologies, create products that embody the results of students explorations, and call for students to explain their work and products to adult and student audiences".

References
Outcomes-Based education.
Principles and Possibilities.
Associate Professor Roy Killen.
out come based education