LEARNING BY OBJECTIVES IN A TEACHER TRAlNINIG PROGRAM: TOWARDS A COMPETENCE-BASED EXPERIENCE CURRICULUM

  • Ambaye Tsehay

Abstract

This short article outlines the preparation of a competence based experience
curiculum. /t is based on an experiment conducted to groups of prospective
teachers at AAU. Six groups ofprospective teachers were made 'to experience'
their tasks through a proplem-based instructional objective format while six others
'experienced aboul' these tasks via prescriptive instructonal objective format.
Results 0/ the experiment generally suggest that the groups who 'experienced'
their task performed better than those who 'experienced about' such tasks .

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Published
1989-05-26