1. The Tyler Curriculum Evaluation Model TWU Nurs 5253 Emily Durbin Elouise Ford Tressa Hunter Curriculum Design
The curriculum represents the expression of educational ideas
Must be in a form that communicates to those association with the learning institution
Must be open to critique
Should be easily transformed into practice

2. Curriculum Design cont’d
Exist on three levels
What is planned for the student
What is delivered to the student
What the student experiences
Based on values and beliefs that students should know
May be contested and/or problematic

3. Curriculum Design cont’d
Curriculum, health services and the community should share mutually beneficial relationship
Curriculum values should enhance health service provision
Must be responsive to changing values and expectations in education

4. Curriculum Design cont’d
Two main types of curriculum models
1. Prescriptive Models- tell what curriculum writer should do(intent) and how to create a curriculum
2. Descriptive Models- provides information of what curriculum writer actually do and (content)what the curriculum covers
The Tyler Model first developed in 1949 is Prescriptive (Prideaux, 2003)

5. Ralph Tyler
Ralph Tyler ( ) published more than 700 articles and sixteen books
Best known for The Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction (Ornstein and Hunkins, 1998) which is based on an eight year study
Tyler posits the problem with education is that educational programs lack unmistakably defined purposes (“Ralph Tyler’s Little Book, ”n d)

6. A Classic Model: The Tyler Model
Often referred to as “objective model”
Emphasis on consistency among objectives, learning experiences, and outcomes
Curriculum objectives indicate both behavior to be developed and area of content to be applied
(Keating, 2006)

7. Tyler’s Four Principles of Teaching
Principle 1: Defining Appropriate Learning Objectives

8. Tyler’s Teaching Principles cont’d
Principle 2: Establishing Useful Learning Experiences

9. Tyler’s Teaching Principles cont’d
Principle 3: Organizing Learning Experiences to Have a Maximum Cumulative Effect

10. Tyler’s Teaching Principles cont’d
Principle 4: Evaluating the Curriculum and Revising Those Aspects That Did Not Prove to be Effective (Keating, 2006)
The four step can be defined as 1) stating the objectives, 2) selecting learning experiences, 3) organizing learning experiences and 4) evaluating the curriculum.

11. Criticism of the Tyler Model
Narrowly interpreted objectives (acceptable verbs)
Difficult and time consuming construction of behavioral objectives
Curriculum restricted to a constricted range of student skills and knowledge
critical thinking, problem solving and value acquiring processes cannot be plainly declared in behavioral objectives (Prideaux, 2003)

12. Primary Strengths of Tyler’s Model
Clearly stated objectives a good place to begin
Involves the active participation of the learner
(Prideaux, 2003)
Simple linear approach to development of behavioral objectives
(Billings & Halstead, 2009)

13. Implications for Nursing Curriculum
Behavioral objectives no longer the “gold standard” another prescriptive model has emerged since 1980s, outcomes based education
Outcome based education focus on student behavior instead of staff, defines outcomes obtained by student
Program designers include statements of intent as broad curriculum aims and specific objectives
(Prideaux, 2003)

14. Implications of Nursing Curriculum cont’d
National League of Nursing & Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education include outcome assessment in their initial accreditation criteria
No one model can sufficiently guide the evaluation of nursing curriculum
Recommend that nurse educators blend elements of more than one model to evaluate nursing curriculum (Billings & Halstead, 2009)

15. References
Billings, D. M. & Halstead, J.A. (2009).Teaching in nursing: A guide for faculty. St. Louis, Missouri: Saunder Elsevier Keating, S. (2006). Curriculum development and evaluation in nursing. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Prideaux, D. (2003). Curriculum design: ABC of learning and teaching in medicine. British Medical Journal, 326(7383), Retrieved from University of South Florida College of Education. (n. d.). Ralph Tyler’s little book. Retrieved from