An Evaluation Method for Curriculum Learning Outcomes Achievement Based on Cloud Model under the OBE Concept

Abstract

Learning outcomes evaluation has been an indispensable important segment in outcomes-based education (OBE), and becoming a significant method to guarantee the quality of education in many countries. The achievement of curriculum learning outcomes should not be judged only on final exam results, but also the added learning value including the students’ knowledge, skills, abilities and so on. Moreover, the evaluation results will be of great value for continuous improvement of teaching quality. In this paper, learning outcomes achievement is used as the index to evaluate the students’ performance and advancement in the teaching-learning process, and it is quantized signifying by the numerical characteristics of cloud model. Taking the factors, such as learning attitude, craftsmanship spirit, professional knowledge and skills into account, an evaluation model of learning outcomes achievement based on cloud model is proposed. It helps to grasp the teacher’s teaching effect and the students’ mastery of the curriculum content and professional skills more clearly. An example was given to validate the evaluation model, and the results indicated that the model could realize the transformation of qualitative and quantitative evaluation, and give precise numerical values to represent the students’ learning outcomes comprehensively. According to the comparison of the evaluation results, teachers could also discover the problems in teaching and learning, and then took appropriate measures to optimizing the teaching contents, methods and models. As a result, students’ learning outcomes were promoted obviously with the improvement.