EDU555 CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

WEEK 4

CURRICULUM EVALUATION

Is essential to curriculum
development, implementation and
maintenance

DEFINITION
Making judgments about the desirability of
certain changes in students + using info to
change teaching and the curriculum

DEFINITION
Various definitions:
1.

Tyler (1950): the process of determining to

what extend educational objectives are
being attained

2.

Borg & Gall (1983): the process of making

judgment about the merit, value or worth of
educational program, projects, materials
and techniques

DEFINITION
3.

Smith & Glass (1987): the process of

establishing value judgments based on

evidence about a program / product
3.

Stufflebeam et al. (1971): The process of

delineating, obtaining & providing useful

info for judging decision alternatives

DEFINITION

Provus (1971): the comparison of

performance to some standards to
determine whether discrepancies existed

Types of evaluation

Scriven (1967)

1) Formative evaluation
on-going program
- program improvement

provide data about educational program

to assist developer in improving the
program

Types of evaluation
2) Summative evaluation
done at the completion of a program
- concerned with overall effectiveness of

the program
- Provide data to determine the worth of the
program

Evaluation in curriculum
development

Evaluation part of the curriculum

development process

Enables curriculum makers reviewing

and modifying to cater the current and
future needs

Evaluation in curriculum
development
Curriculum shoud be continuously reviewed
& reviewed
WHY??
maintaining and sustaining:
- quality
of the program
- relevance
in meeting
- adequacy
the ever changing
- quantity
needs

Evaluation in curriculum
development

QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ASKED:

1)

Are the program (curriculum) meeting

existing or expected needs?

2)

Does the program contain extraneous and

outdated materials?

3)

Are the students able to perform

adequately once they finish their study?

Evaluation in curriculum
development

Wentling (1980): EVALUATION MUST DO

MORE THAN :

just analyze the extend to which a program

had adhered to an original plan

OR attained its primary goals and

objectives

Evaluation in curriculum
development

So, based on Wentlings (1980)

suggestion..

Curriculum evaluation needs to go beyond

the assessment of student behaviour

It should include the overall effect on

students, teachers and society

Evaluation in curriculum
development

The task of evaluating the curriculum

involves a COMPLEX PROCESS
A comprehensive evaluation framework or
model is necessary to achieve a
systematic, effective and efficient
evaluation

Model (framework) for

Curriculum Evaluation

CIPP model (Finch & Bjorquist, 1977)

CONTEXT
EVALUATION

INPUT
EVALUATION

CURRICULUM INITIATION
AND STRUCTURING

PROCESS
EVALUATION

PRODUCT
EVALUATION

CURRICULUM OPERATION