The most critical evidence on a new

curriculum is the extent to which

leads to appropriate kinds of
learning by students.
 •Determine what kind of learning expected.
Independent •New terms, facts, rules and concept, application and inferences listed down.
judges

•Brief test includes the important terms, facts, rules and concepts, application and
inferences that students able to know.
•Tryout class of students would take the test.
Formative •Tryout stage is useful for making detailed revisions in the curriculum materials.
cognitive test •Ideal – selected classes with well-trained teachers

•To determine what they have learned – well or poor

•Done for each tryout class and each subgroup of students.
Analysis
Variation
and
scores
central
tendency

Performance
Kinds
on each test of
item
errors

Relation Difficulty
between
level @
hierarchy and
sequence to pattern of
the errors test items
Determine changes needed or not.

Know where the new materials / procedures

are working well.

If major changes are made – revised materials

tried again.
 Formative
test

Classroom
observational
records
Judgments of
the teachers
and expert
group
 Psychomotor test be evaluated at tryout
stage.

 Important to set clear standards (learning

objectives and criteria will be judged, level at
which these objectives and criteria might be
expected to be performed)