Explain the need and purpose of evaluation.

Evaluation validates the teaching-learning process, and is a very important requirement

for the education system. In learning, it contributes to formulation of objectives, designing of
learning experiences and assessment of learner performance. Evaluation is concerned with
assessing the effectiveness of teaching, teaching strategies, curriculum methods and
techniques. It provides feedback to the teachers about their teaching and the learners about
their learning.
Evaluation tells the teacher up to what extent instructional objectives have been
achieved or if the class is ready to move on to the next learning goal. Also an important purpose
of evaluation is it diagnose deficiency in learning, it helps the teacher decide if individual
students need help, or tell whether the instructional material is not quite suitable for the learner.
Evaluation helps teachers to make better evaluative judgements. The evaluation is instrumental
in determining the effectiveness of a course, program and functioning of a school.
In all the activities inside the classroom and in the process of learning, we cannot
escape making evaluative judgements. Effective decision making process involves evaluation.
Decisions must be made and action must be taken. The more accurately we evaluate our
students, the more effective we teachers are in directing their learning. The understanding of the
principles and procedures of evaluation is very much needed in making more intelligent
decisions in directing students’ progress towards worthy educational goals.

How does curriculum integration improve basic education?

Integration in curriculum and education incorporates the idea of unity between forms of
knowledge and the respective disciplines. It provides an engaging, purposeful, relevant, and
meaningful approach to teaching and learning. It is more student centered and focuses on
broad themes without strict content-area delineation.
Integrated curriculum is considered an ideal method for basic education teaching and
learning. It helps students leap above and beyond the confines of traditional curriculum, and that
it helps all students to succeed, they are taught how to solve problems as they encounter them
in their years after formal education is complete. It teaches students that real world problems
are solved by a combination of skills from all content areas.
Today’s curriculum integration’s mandate is for students to become productive citizens
of the 21st century. This means more than just obtaining high grades in school, it means being
able to apply the skills learned within real life contexts. It means education that is concerned
with what students know and can do, how they interact with others, and what they will face in
the world.
Integrated curriculum increases intellectual curiosity, improves attitude towards
schooling, enhances problem-solving skills and higher achievement in school. When students
focus on problems worth solving, motivation and learning increase.
Curriculum integration also offer a way for teachers to address other concerns, such as
multiple intelligences, constructivism, or essential questions and enduring understandings.
Curriculum integration allows space for differentiation by readiness for learning, processes for
learning, and products of learning in basic education. Curriculum integration guidelines support
teachers as they frame learning in terms of important issues that students can explore in
different ways and connect to themselves and their world.

How does integrated curriculum differ from the unidisciplinary curriculum of

regular courses?

Integrated curriculum is a general method that can even expand a single knowledge into more
knowledge while the second one learner needs to tackle various knowledge one by one.
 Evaluation helps us to validate the whole teaching-learning process and is directed towards its
improvement through regular feedbacks.

A poor performance on the other hand may tell us whether the instructional material is not
quite suitable for the students or the learnerlstudent himself is responsible due to his low ability or
negligence of study etc.

To what extent instructional objectives have been achieved.

It is useful for evaluating the curriculum itself in terms of its suitability for students.

Besides this, it is very useful to bring improvement in teaching and curriculum. It provides
accountability to the society, parents, and to the education system.

: The improvement in courseslcurricula, texts and teaching materials is brought about with the
help of evaluation.

It Ms various purposes in systems of education like quality control in education,

selectiodentrance to a higher gradle or tertiary level. It also helps one to take decisions about success in
specific future activities and provides guidance to further studies and occupation. Some of the
educationists view evaluation virtually synonymous with what was previously defined as learner
appraisal, but evaluation has an expanded role. It plays an effective role in questioning or challenging
the objectives.

Evaluation helps a lot in the design and m~cation of learning experiences on the basis of
feedback received by learner appraisal.

Integration in curriculum and education incorporates the idea of unity between forms of
knowledge and the respective disciplines. It provides an engaging, purposeful, relevant, and meaningful
approach to teaching and learning. It is more student centered and focuses on broad themes without
strict content-area delineation.
 Integrated curriculum is considered an ideal method for basic education teaching and learning.
It helps students leap above and beyond the confines of traditional curriculum, and that it helps all
students to succeed, they are taught how to solve problems as they encounter them in their years after
formal education is complete. It teaches students that real world problems are solved by a combination
of skills from all content areas.

Today’s curriculum integration’s mandate is for students to become productive citizens of the
21st century. This means more than just obtaining high grades in school, it means being able to apply
the skills learned within real life contexts. It means education that is concerned with what students
know and can do, how they interact with others, and what they will face in the world.

Integrated curriculum increases intellectual curiosity, improves attitude towards schooling,

enhances problem-solving skills and higher achievement in school. When students focus on problems
worth solving, motivation and learning increase.

Curriculum integration also offer a way for teachers to address other concerns, such as multiple
intelligences, constructivism, or essential questions and enduring understandings. Curriculum
integration allows space for differentiation by readiness for learning, processes for learning, and
products of learning in basic education. Curriculum integration guidelines support teachers as they
frame learning in terms of important issues that students can explore in different ways and connect to
themselves and their world.