LESSON 1:

WHAT, WHY, AND

HOW TO EVALUATE
A CURRICULUM

S U B T I T L E H E R E
01 WHAT is Curriculum
Evaluation?
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refers to the lessons and academic content

taught in a school or in a specific course or
program

process of collecting data on a program

to determine its value or worth with the
aim of deciding whether to adopt,
reject, or revise the program
Two concepts dileneated by Guba and Lincoln (1981)

refers to the intrinsic

value of an entity Merit
is the value
of an entity in reference to a
particular context or a specific
worth
application
 In this sense, then, curriculum
evaluation should be concerned with
assessing both merit and worth.
 Do planned courses, programs,
01 activities, and learning
opportunities as developed and
organized actually produce
desired results?

How can the curriculum

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offerings best be improved?
Curriculum evaluation is an attempt to
toss light on two questions:
Curriculum evaluation should be
Program of Study
concerned with assessing the (planned learning experiences over a
value of 01 multiyear period for a given
group of learners)

Field of Study
02 (planned learning experiences over a
multiyear period in a given area of
study)

Course of Study
03 (planned learning experiences for a
period of 1 year or less in a given field
of study)
 The foregoing analysis yields this stipulative definition of curriculum evaluation:

The assessment of the merit and worth of a

program of studies, a field of study, or a
course of study.
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Curriculum Evaluation as defined by curricularists
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“the formal determination of the quality,

Worthen and
Sanders (1987) effectiveness, or value of a programme, product,
project, process, objective, or curriculum”

“a process or cluster of processes that people perform in

Ornstein and order to gather data that will enable them to decide whether
Hunkins (1998) to accept, change, or eliminate something- the curriculum in
general or an educational textbook in particular”
 The process of measuring and
judging the extent to which the
WHAT is
planned courses, programmes,
Curriculum learning activities and
Evaluation? opportunities as expressed in the
formal curriculum actually
produce the expected results.
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02 Evaluate a
Curriculum?
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value of the curriculum itself

Is the curriculum appropriate for the particular group of

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01 students with whom it is being used?

Are the instructional methods selected, the best choices in the

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02 light of the objectives sought?

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03 Is the content the best that could be selected?

Are the materials recommended for instructional purpose

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Decision Objectives of
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To determine the outcomes of a

programme.
To improve
methods of
teaching and
To help in deciding whether to accept or reject
instructional
To ascertain the
a programme. techniques. need for the
revision of the
To help in future development of the curriculum course content.

material for continuous improvement.

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evaluation relate to:

Effectiveness and Status of The

efficiency of curriculum achievement
translating contents and
of the goals
government practices in the
education policy contexts of global, and aims of
into educational national and local educational
practice concerns programmes
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identifies the strengths and Curriculum evaluation provides

weaknesses of an existing information necessary for teachers,
school managers, curriculum
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basis of the intended plan,
recommendations that will enhance
design or implementation
achieved learning outcomes.

When evaluation is done in the

Based on some standards,
middle of the curriculum
curriculum evaluation will
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development, it will tell if the
02 guide whether the results
designed or implemented
have equaled or exceeded the
curriculum can produce or is
standards, thus can be labeled
producing the desired results.
as success
 In general, the purpose of curriculum evaluation includes two things:

 Evaluation is used to assess the effectiveness, efficiency and

relevance of the program.

 Evaluation can be used as a tool in implementing the

curriculum (learning).
 From the two things above, in
essence, curriculum evaluation
WHY
is aimed at improving the
Evaluate a
curriculum by revealing the
Curriculum?
successes and shortcomings of
the curriculum implementation
process in achieving the goals
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03 Evaluate a
Curriculum?
Models are useful because they help us define the
parameters of an evaluation, what concepts to
study and the procedures to be used to extract
important data.
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TYLER Stufflebeam’s
MODEL CIPP MODEL
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SELECTING ORGANIZING EVALUATION OF

OBJECTIVES LEARNING STUDENTS
LEARNING PERFORMANCE
EXPERIENCES EXPERIENCES

How can learning experiences

What educational goals should be organised for effective
the school seek to attain? instruction?
How can learning experiences
How can the effectiveness of
be selected which are likely to
learning experiences be
be useful in attaining these
evaluated?
objectives??
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It is relatively easy to understand and apply

It focuses attention on curricular strengths and weaknesses,

rather than being concerned solely with the performance of individual
students.

It also emphasizes the importance of a continuing cycle of assessment,

analysis, and improvement.
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DISADVANTAGES
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It does not suggest how the objectives themselves should be evaluated.

It does not provide

standards or suggest how standards should be developed

Its emphasis on the prior statement of objectives may restrict creativity in

curriculum development, and it seems to place undue emphasis on the
preassessment and postassessment, ignoring completely the need for formative
assessment.
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Its emphasis on decision making seems appropriate for administrators

concerned with improving curricula.

Its concern for the formative aspects of evaluation remedies a serious

deficiency in the Tyler
model.

The detailed guidelines and forms created by the committee provide step-
by-step guidance for users.
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The kinds of decisions are identified.
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The kinds of data needed to make those

decisions are identified.

Those data are collected.

The criteria for determining quality are

established.

The data are analyzed on the basis of those

criteria.

The needed information is provided to decision

makers.
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DISADVANTAGES
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Its main weakness seems to be its failure to recognize the complexity of the
decision-making process in organizations.

It assumes more rationality than exists in such situations and ignores the
political factors that play a large part in these decisions.

Also, as Guba and Lincoln (1981) noted, it seems difficult to implement and
expensive to maintain.
 Successful curriculum
leaders realize that
REMEMBER evaluation in education
is to help the educational
process
better relate to individual
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