DOMAIN IN EDUCATION

 

  Three Big Domains Of Objectives (Benjamin Bloom)     

(1)  Cognitive; (2) affective; and (3) Psychomotor

 

1.          Knowledge - recall, remembering of prior learned materials in terms of facts, concepts, theories and principles. It is the lowest cognitive level.

2.          Comprehension -ability to grasp the meaning of material. It indicates the lowest form of understanding.

3.          Application - the ability to use learned material in new and concrete situation.

4.          Analysis - ability to break down material into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood.

5.          Synthesis - ability to put parts together to form a new whole

6.          Evaluation - Ability to pass judgment on something based on given criteria.

 

  Affective Domain (Krathwohl, 1964) Domain Of Valuing Attitude And Appreciation 

1.          Receiving- students willingness to pay attention to particular event, stimuli or classroom activities

2.          Responding- active participation on the part of the students

3.          Valuing-concerned with the worth or value a student attaches to a particular phenomenon, object or behavior

4.          Organization-concerned with bringing together different values and building a value system

5.          Characterization of value or value complex-developing a lifestyle based on a value system

 

  Psychomotor Domain Simpson 1972  

1.          Perception-use of sense organs to guide motor activities

2.          Set-refers to the readiness to take a particular type of action

3.          Guided Response- concerned with early stages in learning complex skills imitation and trial and error are some of the ways of doing.

4.          Mechanism-responses become habitual. Performance skills are executed with ease and confidence

5.          Complex over responses-skillful performance and with complex movement patterns

6.          Adaptation-well developed skills is now very easy to

7.          Origination-refers to creating new movements and patterns to fit the situation, showing creativity.

 

  Components 2 Curriculum Content or Subject matter

All curricula have content, regardless of their design or models. To the subject centered view, content or subject matter is another term for knowledge. It is compendium of facts, concepts generalization, principles and theories. To the learner-centered view, the content relates knowledge to the individual‘s personal and social world and how he/she defines reality. According to Jerome Bruner, knowledge is a model we construct to give meaning and structure to regularities in experience

 

Criteria in the selection of subject matter content or knowledge for the curriculum (Bilbao, 2009)

 

1.  Self-sufficiency - According to Scheffler (1970), the prime guiding principle for content selection is helping learners to attain maximum self-sufficiency in learning, but in the most economical manner. Economy means less teaching effort and educational resources, less learner‘s effort, but more results and effective learning outcomes.

2.  Significance - when content or subject matter will contribute to basic ideas, concepts principles, and generalization to achieve the overall aim of the curriculum, since it is significant. It also significant if it will develop learning abilities, skills, processes and attitude.

Subject matter is significant if it will develop the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills of the learners. It can also be significant if the cultural aspect will be considered.

3.  Validity - The authenticity of the subject matter selected is it validity. With information explosion, oftentimes, knowledge selected for school content may become obsolete. Thus, subject matter should be checked or verified at regular intervals, to determine if the content that was originally valid continues to be so.

4.  Interest - For a learner –centered curriculum, this is the key criterion. A learner will value the content if it is meaningful to him or her. Students‘ interests should be considered and adjusted taking into consideration maturity, prior experiences, educational and social value of their interest among others.

5.  Utility - Usefulness of the content or subject matter may be relative to the learner who is going to use it. Usefulness may either be for the present or the future questions like ―will I use it in my future job? will it add meaning to my life or develop my human potential? or will the subject matter be useful in solving my current problems? are considered.

6.  Learnability - Subject matter in the curriculum should be within the range of the experiences of the learners. This is clearly suggested by the psychological foundations of a curriculum. There are ways of presenting subject matter or content which can easily be learned. Optimal placement and appropriate organization and sequencing of contests are the two ways by which these can be done.

7.  Feasibility - can the subject matter or content be learned within the time allowed, resources available, expertise of the teacher, and the nature of the learners? Content selection should be considered within the context of the existing reality in schools, in society and government.

 

  Component 3 Curriculum Experiences                                                                                                        The core or the heart of the curriculum includes the different instructional strategies and methods that realize the goals and use the content in order to produce an outcome teaching strategies convert the written curriculum into instruction. Both the teacher and learner take actions to facilitate learning.

Whatever methods the teacher utilizes to implement the curriculum, there will be some guide for the selection and use, such as:

1.          Teaching methods are means to achieve the end. They are used to translate the objectives into action.

2.          There is no single best teaching method. Its effectiveness will depend on the learning objectives, the learners, and skill of the teacher.

3.          Teaching methods should stimulate the learners desire to develop in the cognitive, affective, psychomotor, social and spiritual domains.

4.          In the choice of the teaching methods, the learning styles of the students should be considered.

5.          Every method should lead to the development of the three domains: cognitive, affective and psychomotor

6.          Flexibility should be a consideration in the use of the teaching methods

 

  Components 4 Curriculum Evaluation

All curricula, to be effective, must have the element of evaluation (Worthen & sanders, 1987), Curriculum evaluation refers to the formal determination of the quality, effectiveness or value of the program process, and product of the curriculum. Evaluation is meeting the goals and matching them with the intended outcomes

 

 

The CIPP Models by Stufflebeam                                                                                                                            CIPP - Context-Input-Process- Product. The Process is continuous and very important to curriculum managers, like principals, supervisors, department heads, deans and even teachers.

·        Context - refers to the environment of the curriculum, the real situation where the curriculum is operating. Context evaluation refers to situation analysis.

·        Input - refers to the elements of the curriculum, which include the goals, instructional strategies, the learners, the teachers, the contents and all the materials needed

·        Process - refers to the ways and means of how the curriculum has been implemented. This component of the CIPP looks into the entire operation of the curriculum.

·        Product - indicates if the curriculum accomplishes its goals. It will determine to what extent the curriculum objectives have been achieved.

 

Within the evaluation process, smaller and more specific activities are needed to determine the effectiveness of the curriculum. It includes assessment and measurement of learning outcomes, the ultimate product of a curriculum. Methods include diagnostic; placement; formulative or summative assessments or non-reference or criterion referenced measurement.

The components of a curriculum are distinct but are interrelated to one another as shown in the following figure.


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