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1 Evaluating the Curriculum

2 The Five Ps Program Provisions Procedures Products Processes

3 Evaluation The means for determining what needs improvement and for providing a basis for effecting that improvement Measures achievement, instructor’s performance, effectiveness of a particular approach or methodology Problems in evaluation What should we be able to tell? P.439

4 The Curriculum Model Components: Curriculum goals
Curriculum objectives Organization Implementation Evaluation: Takes place before,beginning, end

5 Evaluation Models The Saylor, Alexander, and Lewis model- seek evaluation of these components: The goals Subgoals Objectives The program of education a a totality Specific segments of the education Instruction and evaluation program

6 CIPP model Combines three major steps in the evaluation process
delineating obtaining, providing -three classes of change settings homeostasis, incrementalism, neomobilism

7 four types of evaluation:
context, input, process, and product four types of decisions: planning, structuring, implementing and recycling

8 Models can be used independently or in conjunction with each other.

9 Scope - select topics to be studied and specify the instructional objectives
Relevance - congruence between the entire school system and the social order Balance - maintain certain sets of elements proportionately Integration - unify subject matter

10 Problems in Curriculum Development
Chapter 14

11 What is the problem/solution?
Alternative schooling Bilingual education Censorship Community service Cultural literacy Health education National standards

12 Outcomes-based education
Privatization Provision for expectionalities Racial Ethnic integration and cultural diversity Religion in the schools Schedule revisions

13 Sexism Whole language What are others???????

14 Impact of Professional Problems Upon Curriculum
The need to clarify the role of teacher organizations in respect to curriculum improvement the need for better means of disseminating the results of curriculum research the need for improved training programs for curriculum developers

15 Curriculum Products Chapter 15

16 Could you construct a curriculum guide?
What would it look like? Could you construct a resource unit? Identify sources for curriculum materials.

17 Sequence - subject matter will be made available to the students
Continuity - content may fruitfully be repeated at increased levels of complexity Articulation - subject matter flows sequentially across grade level boundaries Transferability - maximum transfer of learning


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