EVALUATION APPROACHES FOR OUT COME BASED EDUCATION

Evaluation is the process which determines the level of understanding on a specific course by an individual. Traditional evaluation methods adopted by majority of the higher educational systems in India focus mainly on theory examinations at the end of the course and based the marks scored by an individual. But such systems have failed in really measuring the outcome of a given course. These days where outcome based education has been getting popular among the higher education systems, institutions needs to adopt new evaluation strategies so as to measure the outcome of a given course by an individual. Various evaluation approaches could be considered during the course time mainly, Entry Test, Summary Sessions, Presentation assignments, Case study along with Application of the course concepts by using available software tools. This paper will discuss on these evaluation processes and also correlate its results on the outcome of a given course