Name: Jelly Mae Taghap Course, year & section: BSED-English 3-2

Assessing the Curriculum

Intended vs Implemented vs Achieved Curriculum

Directions: Answer the following questions below. Justify your answer.

1. What is the difference between intended implemented and attained

curriculum?
 Intended curriculum is the educational level. It is what every student is to
know and what they are supposed to learn. This curriculum comes into
view in national policies which reflect the social visions, educational plans,
and formal and national documents certified for educational goals.
Implemented curriculum is at the level of teacher and class activities. It
focuses on implementing the intentions and the goals. The implemented
curriculum refers to class management with institutional arrangements,
educational strategies, source use, and teacher’s attitude. While, Attained
Curriculum is at the student level. It is the result of what is achieved at
the end of learning and teaching. The attained curriculum defines the
student’s competences, academic achievement, attitudes, and belief
indications.

2. What is an intended curriculum?

 The intended curriculum is the overt curriculum that is acknowledged in
policy statements as that which schools or other educational institutions
or arrangements set out to accomplish. It is a set of formal documents
which specify what the relevant national education authorities and society
expect that students will learn at school in terms of knowledge,
understanding, skills, values, and attitudes to be acquired and developed,
and how the outcomes of the teaching and learning process will be
assessed. It is usually embodied in curriculum framework(s) and guides,
syllabi, textbooks, teacher’s guides, content of tests and examinations,
regulations, policies and other official documents.

3. What is implemented curriculum?

 The actual teaching and learning activities taking place in schools through
interaction between learners and teachers as well as among learners, e.g.
how the intended curriculum is translated into practice and actually
delivered. Also defined as the ‘curriculum in action’ or the ‘taught
curriculum’.

4. Why is it important to implement a curriculum exactly as described?

 Because without a curriculum - a written guide of what you plan on doing
in the classroom- you have little chance of effectively impacting students
lives. A curriculum is a road map of where you are going it can be as
simple as an outline of topics to be covered; it can be more complex
listing resources to be used, a pacing guide for instruction, and tasks
students will be assigned to ensure that they have learned what you set
out to teach them. Without a curriculum you are a rudderless ship that
HAS NO MEASURABLE GOAL.