Curriculum

Evaluation in the
Classroom
Encarnacion, Ma. Gebelle S.
Joya, Aubrey P.
Malgario, Jean Ann L.
“The whole purpose of education is
to turn mirrors into windows”

Sydney J. Harris
Curriculum
Curriculum is broadly defined as the totality
of student experiences that occur in the
educational process. The term often refers
specifically to a planned sequence of
instruction, or to a view of the student's
experiences in terms of the educator's or
school's instructional goals.
Evaluation
Evaluation is a process of collecting data on
a program to determine its value or worth with
the aim of deciding whether to adopt, reject or
revise the program.
Curriculum
Evaluation
Worthen and Sanders (1987) define
curriculum evaluation as the formal
determination of the quality,
effectiveness or value of a programme,
product, project, process, objective or
curriculum.
Curriculum
Evaluation
Ornstein and Hunkis (1998) define
curriculum evaluation as process or cluster
of processes that people perform in order to
gather data that will enable them to decide
whether to accept, change, or eliminate
something- the curriculum in general or an
educational textbook in particular”
Curriculum
Evaluation
Curriculum evaluation is an attempt to toss light
on two questions:

1. Do planned courses, programs, activities,

and learning opportunities as developed and
organized actually produce desired results?

2. How can the curriculum offerings best be

improved?
 Need for Curriculum
Evaluation
To provide a conceptual framework for specific purpose of the evaluation

Several experts have proposed different models describing how and what should
involve in evaluating a curriculum

Models are useful because they help us define the parameters of an evaluation ,
what concepts to study and the procedures to be used to extract important data.
 Types of Curriculum
Evaluation in the Classroom

Formative Evaluation Diagnostic Evaluation Summative Evaluation

Student Learning This type of evaluation The goal of these evaluations is to determine Summative evaluation can take place
approaches the central problems of  the progress or the current student learning. during the project  implementation, but is
curriculum development. What kind of most often undertaken at the end  of a
student learning  take place when the project. As such, summative evaluation
curriculum materials and method are  used can also be  referred to as ex-post
properly.  Here the main evidence has to evaluation.
do with  student learning that takes place
in relation curriculum.
Curriculum Evaluation at
the school system level
Encarnacion, Ma. Gebelle S.
Joya, Aubrey P.
Malgario, Jean Ann D.
Curriculum
Evaluation
is done mostly at a school or school
system level. This usually done to
evaluate how the curriculum goals
are attained in the macro level. At
this level, the following instruments
can be used to gather data for
evaluation of the curriculum:
• Opinion Polls

• Surveys

• Focus Group Discussion

• Follow-up studies

• Standard Evaluation instrument

• Results of District or National Test

Opinion Poll
Referred to as a poll or a
survey, it is a human
research survey of public
opinion from a particular
sample.
Focus Group Discussion
Involves gathering people
from similar, backgrounds
or experiences together to
discuss a specific topic of
interests

Survey
It is a list of questions
aimed at extracting
specific data from a
particular group of
people
 Follow-up studies
Results of District or National
A national test is a A series of training module
survey of schools and and related exercise for
Test
students educational planners and
admin. It is the method and
techniques used in studies of
transition from school to
work.

Standard Evaluation Instrument

It is necessary and important aspect of any national
education system. It provides the basis for curriculum
policy decisions, for feedback on continuous curriculum
adjustments and processes of curriculum implementation
 Curriculum Evaluation in the
Classroom
Doll (1997) asserted that the classroom could be site of gathering
important data that will lead to curriculum evaluation.

Within the classroom, teachers and administrator can collect

data using several instruments like test result, anecdotal
records, check list, interview guides , observation guides,
personality inventories, rating scale, IQ tests, interest
inventories.
 Test result
Used to evaluate the achievement of the children the
skills they need to learn and the effectiveness of school
in teaching these skills.

Anecdotal
record
used to record specific observations of individual
student behaviours, skills and attitudes as they relate to
the outcomes in the program of studies. 
 Checklists
Checklists are assessment tools that set out specific
criteria, which educators and students may use to gauge
skill development or progress. Checklists set out skills,
attitudes, strategies, and behaviours for evaluation and
offer ways to systematically organize information about
a student or group of students.
Interview guides
vary from highly scripted to relatively loose, but they
all share certain features. They help you know what to
ask about , in what sequence, how you pose your
questions, how to pose follow up,

Observation
guides
is an outline provide to pre service teachers a way to
scaffold and support their observation o balanced
literacy taking place in classroom instruction . 
Personality inventories
tool that career counselors and other career
development professionals use to help people learn
about their personality types. It reveals information
about individuals' social traits, motivations, strengths
and weaknesses, and attitudes.
Rating scales
is a common method of data collection that is used to
gather comparative information about a specific
research subject. Rating scale is a number that often
given to ascertain the level to which student has
achieved the aim of activity.

IQ tests
 is the estimation of a student's current intellectual
functioning through a performance of various
tasks designed to assess different types of
reasoning. 
Interest inventory 
 also known as interest test. is a testing instrument
designed for the purpose of measuring and evaluating
the level of an individual's interest in, or preference for,
a variety of activities.
Teacher play an important role in conducting curriculum
evaluation in the classroom level. They must be guided in
gathering data from this instruments and interpreting the data.
Results may be help in improving instruction and in effective
implementing of the curriculum.