Editing Outcome-based education (section)

===Australia===
In the early 1990s, all states and territories in Australia developed intended curriculum documents largely based on OBE for their primary and secondary schools. Criticism arose shortly after implementation.<ref name=Donnelly /> Critics argued that no evidence existed that OBE could be implemented successfully on a large scale, in either the United States or Australia. An evaluation of Australian schools found that implementing OBE was difficult. Teachers felt overwhelmed by the amount of expected achievement outcomes. Educators believed that the curriculum outcomes did not attend to the needs of the students or teachers. Critics felt that too many expected outcomes left students with shallow understanding of the material. Many of Australia’s current education policies have moved away from OBE and towards a focus on fully understanding the essential content, rather than learning more content with less understanding.<ref name=Donnelly>{{cite journal|last1=Donnelly|first1=Kevin|title=Australia's adoption of outcomes based education – a critique|journal=Issues in Educational Research|year=2007|url=http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED501707.pdf}}</ref>

==== Western Australia ====
Officially, an agenda to implement Outcomes Based Education took place between 1992 and 2008 in Western Australia.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.news.com.au/news/wa-dumps-controversial-obe/news-story/a0d09002d5a188e1cdf5c58e321d13ac|title=WA dumps Outcomes Based Education (OBE)|last=AAP|date=20 October 2009|work=News.com.au}}</ref> Dissatisfaction with OBE escalated from 2004 when the government proposed the implementation of an alternative assessment system using OBE 'levels' for years 11 and 12. With government school teachers not permitted to publicly express dissatisfaction with the new system, a community lobby group called [[PLATO WA|PLATO]] as formed in June 2004 by high school science teacher Marko Vojkavi.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://platowa.com/documents/History.html|title=A Short History of PLATO|work=PLATO WA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026185807/http://platowa.com/documents/History.html|archive-date=26 October 2016|access-date=24 September 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Teachers anonymously expressed their views through the website and online forums, with the website quickly became one of the most widely read educational websites in Australia with more 180,000 hits per month and contained an archive of more than 10,000 articles on the subject of OBE implementation. In 2008 it was officially abandoned by the state government with Minister for Education [[Mark McGowan]] remarking that the 1990s fad "to dispense with syllabus" was over.<ref name=":0" />