Reflection on Week 10

Topic 10: Curriculum Evaluation ;Curriculum Issues and Trends

Evaluation...

• The process or group of processes that people perform in order to gather data that will enable them to decide whether to accept, change or eliminate something.

• Concerned with "|relative values" and "statements of worth".

• Determining whether the expected or the planned has occurred or is occurring in relation to the intended.

• to answer the question, "Did the curriculum or training program, as designed, developed and implemented produce the desire results?"

How to evaluate curriculum?

1. Data based judgement
2. Student achievement
3. Expert analysis (survey/checklist)

Student Evaluation

1. Objective based (goals and objectives)
2. Domains of learning
3. Cognitive - knowledge assessment
4. Psychomotor - skill assessment
5. Attitudes - values
6. Multiple activities and assessments

Five Value Questions

1) Intrinsic value

• the goodness and appropriate of the curriculum

2) Instrumental Value

• What use is the curriculum?
• Who is intended audience?
• Does the curriculum address the goals and objectives?

3) Comparative value

• Is the new program better that the one it replaced?

4) Idealization value

• How can the curriculum be improved for optimal benefit?

5) Decision Value

• Should the new program be retained, modified or discarded?