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What is outcomes-based education and how does it compare with other educational models like competency-based education or mastery-based learning? Learn about the similarities and differences of these models and the challenges that can come with it. In 1993, Research Roundup published a collection of reviews that described outcomes-based education (OBE) as  “a controversial model of educational restructuring,”  where learning was defined as a clear demonstration of what a student can know and show. Almost two and a half decades later, the concept of organizing curriculum, content, and learning activities around specific, demonstrable outcomes is still rather controversial. To make matters more challenging, terms such as competencies and  competency-based learning , mastery and mastery-based learning are often used in the same sentence to describe different aspects of the same idea. If we’re to thoughtfully unbox the ways these terms and models differ...