Effectiveness of the Implementation of Outcomes Based Education (OBE) in the College of International Tourism and Hospitality Management

Content-based curriculum, policies of teaching, learning, and assessment, the lack of basic infrastructure and info-structure, lack of facilities, and teachers’ workload are among the key challenges towards implementing an Outcomes Based Education approach. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness ofthe implementation of OBE in the College of International Hospitality and Tourism Management for the students enrolled in the first semester of 2019-2020 in terms of relevance of the course, course organization, learning environment and counselling; tested the significant difference on the effectiveness of OBE when grouped according to program and proposed an action plan based on the results of the study. The study used descriptive design with 3445 responses from the studenttotal population. Frequency, percentage distribution, weighted mean, ranking, Shapiro-Wilk and Kruskall Wallis was used to test the result of the study. The study revealed that student participants assessed the implementation of Outcomes Based Education as highly effective in the aspects of relevance of the course specifically in the indicator the course helped the student develop relevant subject. For teachers and teaching- learning activities, teachers motivated the students to learn according to the assessment of travel and tourism management and Cruiseline operation in hotel services programs. It was found out that highly significant difference was obtained in the assessment of effectiveness of OBE when grouped according to program/specialization and found that students under hotel and restaurant administration considered the implementation most effective. An action plan was proposed to have continuous implementation of OBE and to achieve its perfect implementation.

Keywords: Outcomes Based Education, Tourism and Hospitality Management