Curriculum assessment may achieve the following purposes:
1.
Highlight curriculum
expectations;
2.
Gather information
about what students know and can do,
3.
Motivate and
encourage teachers to meet the identifies needs of students
4.
Provide evidence to
tell how well the students have learned ; and
5.
Obtain feedback that
helps teachers, students and parents make good decisions to guide instruction
Intended Curriculum - refers to a
set of objectives identified set at the beginning of any curricular plan. It
establishes the goal, the specific purposes, and the immediate objectives to be
accomplished. The intended curriculum specifies what the curriculum maker wants
to do.
Implemented Curriculum - refers to the various learning activities or experiences of the
students in order to achieve the intended curricular outcomes.
Achieved curriculum - refers to the curriculum outcomes based on the first two types of
curriculum, the intended and implemented. The achieved curriculum is considered
the product. It can be the learning outcomes, or a material product itself,
like a book, modules or instructional material.
What is evaluation? Evaluation is the process of determining the value of something or the
extent to which goals are being achieved. It is a process of making decisions
or reaching a conclusion. It involves decision making about student performance
based on information obtained from assessment process. Assessment id the
process of collecting information by reviewing the products of student works,
interviewing, observing or testing.
Evaluation is the process if
using information that is collected through assessment. The ultimate purpose of
any evaluation process that takes place in schools is to improve student
learning. It entails a reasoning process that is based on inference. Inference,
which the process of arriving at a logical conclusion from a body of evidence.
Inference usually refers to the process of developing a conclusion on the basis
of some phenomenon that is not experienced or observed directly by the person
drawing inference.
Evaluation is thoughtful
process, used to understand things. Evaluation has been defined is a variety of
ways, all of which have at their core the idea of comparison. When we evaluate,
we make comparison between things, not the differences, summarize our findings
and draw conclusion about results.
Evaluation is the judgment made
about the assessments of students learning based on established criteria. It
involves a process of integrating information from various sources and using
this information to make inferences and judgments about how well the students
have achieved curriculum expectations. Evaluation involves placing a value on
and determining the worth of student‘s assessment. Evaluation is usually made
so that progress can be communicated to students and parents.
Evaluation provides information
•
Directly to the
learner for guidance
•
Directly to the
teacher for orientation of the next instruction activities; and
•
Directly to external
agencies for their assessment of schools functioning in the light of national
purpose.
What is Curriculum Evaluation? Curriculum Evaluation is the process of obtaining
information for judging the worth of an educational program, product,
procedure, educational objectives or the potential utility of alternative
approaches designed to attain specified objectives,
Curriculum evaluation focuses on determining whether the curriculum as recorded in
the master plan has been carried out in the classroom. In evaluating a curriculum,
the following key questions are usually asked:
1.
Are the objectives
being addressed?
2.
Are the contents
presented in the recommended sequence?
3.
Are the students
being involved in the suggested instructional experiences?
4.
Are the students
reaching to the contents?
Suggested Plan of Action for Curriculum Evaluation
1. Focus in one particular component of the curriculum. Will it be the
subject area, the grade level, the course or the degree program? Specify the
objectives of evaluation.
2. Collect or gather the information is made up of data needed regarding
the object of evaluation
3. Organize the information. This step will require coding, organizing,
strong and retrieving data for interpretation
4. Analyze information. An appropriate way of analyzing will be utilized
5. Report information. The result of evaluation should be reported to
specific audiences
6. Reporting can be done formally in conferences with stakeholders, or
informal through roundtable discussion and conversation.
7. Recycle the information for continuous feedback, modification and
adjustments to be made.