CHAPTER 4

EVALUATING A CURRICULUM

MODULE 5: LESSON 1

CURRICULUM EVALUATION
and the TEACHER

Presented by:

Mari Toni Gultiano-Destua

 Module Overview

 Context and Definition

 Role of the teacher as an Evaluator
 Present ways of evaluating the curriculum
as: written, planned or implemented
 Reference to popular curriculum models

Take Note:
 It’s a component of curriculum development
 Look into educational reforms or innovations
 Establish the merit or worth of the curriculum
 Module Overview

Attempt to Answer the Questions:

1. Do planned courses, programs, activities as written

and implemented produce desired outcomes?

2. How can these school curricula be improved?

Lesson 1: What, Why and How to Evaluate
a Curriculum?

Desired Learning Outcomes:

 Acquire clear understanding of what is curriculum

evaluation
 Explain the need to evaluate the curriculum
 How it is being done
 Expand knowledge about the different
curriculum evaluation models
 Curriculum Evaluation:
A PROCESS and A TOOL

PROCESS TOOL RESULT

Follows Help to judge Basis to
procedure the
based on IMPROVE
Models & Worth & The
Frameworks Merit Curriculum
 Curriculum Evaluation:
CURRICULARISTS DEFINITION
• A process to gather data & to decide
Orstein & whether to accept, change, eliminate the
Hunkins whole curriculum of a textbook.

• To identify the weaknesses and strengths

McNeil, J problems encountered in the implementation;
• To improve the curriculum development
process

• It is a process of delineating, obtaining and

Olivia, P. providing useful information for judging
alternatives for purpose of modifying or
eliminating the curriculum.
Curriculum Evaluation: REASONS
Why there is a need to evaluate a Curriculum?

 an EVALUATION is needed at the end of a line/cycle

 planning, designing & implementing are useless
without evaluation
 Curriculum Evaluation: REASONS
Identifies the At the MIDDLE It will GUIDE It PROVIDES
STRENGTHS & of the whether the INFORMATION
WEAKNESSES curriculum results have necessary for
which will be the development, equaled or teachers, school
basis of intended exceeded the managers,
plan, design or It can tell if the standards, it curriculum
implementation designed or is labelled as specialist for policy
implemented SUCCESS . recommendations
curriculum can that will enhance
produce or is achieved learning
producing the outcomes
desired result.

TERMINAL BASIS FOR

NEEDS MONITORING ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENT DECISION
MAKING
 Curriculum Evaluation: MODELS

Ralph Tyler and Hilda Taba C.E. ends in EVALUATION

EVALUATION is a that collectively

Tells about the value or

worth of something that
was done.

How can a curriculum’s worth be DETERMINED?

MODELS