The purpose of this study was to determine teachers' perceptions of the effects of implementation of the philosophy, curriculum structure, instructional development system, assessment and monitoring procedures, instructional organization, and staff development process of Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) and to determine if teachers' perceptions of…

This formative study is based on focus group interviews with nearly 200 teachers at 30 Iowa high schools during the spring of 1998. During the one-day site visits at each school, data was also collected from students, the principal, the technology coordinator (where available), and the district's technology plan. Teachers were asked about how they…