And

Curriculum
Quality Audit
Desired Learning Outcomes

 Define curriculum mapping and curriculum quality audit

Explain the benefits of curriculum mapping and curriculum quality
audit
Familiarize oneself of some examples of curriculum maps
Curriculum Mapping
-is a model for designing, refining , upgrading and reviewing the
curriculum resulting in a framework that provides form, focus and
function (Hale and Dunlap, 2010).
-is reflective process that helps teachers understand what has been
taught and how learning outcomes are assessed.
-this process was introduced by Heidi Hayes Jacobs in 2004 in her
book Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping
-this approach is an ongoing process or work-in-progress
-it is not a one time initiative but a continuing action, which involves
teachers and other stakeholders, who have common concerns
Common questions asked by different
stakeholders:
1. What do my students learn?
2. What do they study in the first quarter?
3. What are they studying in the school throughout the year?
4. Do my co-teachers who handle the same subject, cover the same
content? Achieve the same outcomes? Use similar strategies?
5. How do I help my students understand the connections between
my subjects and other subjects within the year? Next year?
Benefits of Curriculum Mapping
1. Curriculum mapping ensures alignment of the desired learning
outcomes, learning activities, and assessment of learning.
2. It addresses the gaps or repetitions in the curriculum.
3. It verifies, clarifies, and establishes alignment between what students
do in their courses and what is taught in the classrooms and assessed
as their learning.
4. The curriculum maps visually show important elements of the
curriculum and how they contribute to student learning.
5. It connects all initiatives from instruction, pedagogies, assessment,
and professional development.
Curriculum Mapping Process
Example A.
1. Make a matrix or a spreadsheet.
2. Place a timeline that you need to cover.
3. Enter the ILO, skills, needed to be taught or achieved at the end of the teaching.
4. Enter in the same matrix the content areas/subject areas to be covered.
5. Align and name each resource available such as textbooks, workbooks, module next to the subject areas.
6. Enter the teaching-learning methods to be used to achieve the outcome.
7. Align and enter the assessment procedure and tools to the ILO, content areas, and resources.
8. Circulate the map among all involved personnel for their inputs.
9. Revise and refine map based on suggestions and distribute to all concerned.
Curriculum Mapping Process
Example B (for degree program in college)
1. Make a matrix or a spreadsheet.
2. Identify the degree or program outcomes (BEED or BSED)
3. Identify the subjects or course under the degree (GenEd, ProfEd, or major)
4. List the subjects along the vertical cells of the matrix in a logical or chronological order.
5. List the degree program outcomes along the horizontal cell (use code as PO1, PO2, ..if outcomes
are too long to fit in the cell)
6. Cross the subject and the outcomes, and determine if such subject accomplishes the outcomes
as either Learned (L), Performed (P), or given opportunity (O).
7. Fill up all cells.
8. After accomplishing the map, use it as a guide for all teachers teaching the course for students to
complete the degree in four years.
Examples of a Curriculum Map

Sample A.
Elementary Science Grade 3
Examples of a Curriculum Map

Sample A1
Sample B- Curriculum Map for BEED (ProfEd
Courses)
Legend:

L- Learned outcomes
(knowledge, skills, values)
achieved in the subject
P- Practiced the learned
outcomes (knowledge, skills,
values)
O- Opportunity to learn and
practice
Curriculum Quality Audit
Curriculum Quality Audit (CQA)- is a form of curriculum mapping.
It is a process of mapping the curricular program or syllabus against
established standards.
This process is supported by Susan Rafe when she said that the best practice
in curriculum development and implementation require that discipline based
standards embody curricular and program scopes and sequences.
The curriculum quality audit requires a written curriculum and tested
curriculum linked to both the taught and the written curricula.
For those who want to engage in curriculum quality audit,
the following questions are worth considering:
1. Is the curriculum planned, executed, and assessed in accordance
with appropriate standards?
2. How does the school system conform to the standards of quality in
instructional organization like specificity, quality and scope for
teaching, learning and assessment?
3. Are all students achieving success equally and effectively? If not,
what can be done about it?
Benefits of Curriculum Quality Audit
1. Identify gaps, under and overrepresentation of the curriculum
based on the standards.
2. Ensures alignment of learning outcomes, activities, and assessment
to the standards.
3. Achieves an intentionally comparable curriculum as standards
become the basis of the curriculum analysis.
The Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST)- can be used
as anchor in curriculum quality audit.
It aims to set clear expectations of teachers along well-defined
career stages of professional development from beginning to
distinguished practice.
-CHED CMOs 74-83 (for National)
-CFT-SEA (Competency Framework for Teachers in Southeast Asia) ---
(for International)

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