What Should We Do To Make A Good Curriculum and What Should Curriculum Developers Do To Make Curriculum Better?

GRADUATE SCHOOL
MAED
SECOND SEMESTER 2020
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT and EVALUATION MODELS
FINAL EXAM
1. What should we do to make a good curriculum and what should curriculum

developers do to make curriculum better?
In order for curriculum development to be effective and schools to be successful, teachers
must be involved in the development process. An effective curriculum should reflect the
philosophy, goals, objectives, learning experiences, instructional resources, and
assessments that comprise a specific educational program. It can be subject specific or a
generalized overview of expectation. It must be a usable tool to assists teachers in the
development of individualized strategies and the methods and materials necessary for them
to be successful. Curriculum developers are highly trained educational professionals who
devote their career to creating the instructional materials that teachers use in the classroom
to facilitate student learning. On the typical day in the life of a curriculum developer, they can
be found coordinating the implementation of curriculum, evaluate teachers’ instruction,
analyzing student test data, assessing education standards with school staff, recommending
textbooks, and mentoring teachers on pedagogical strategies. Most curriculum developers
will specialize in a certain area of education, such as elementary education, secondary
education, literacy, mathematics, special education, and teaching English language learners.
Some curriculum developers will also be involved in conducting teacher training conferences
to introduce new learning standards and demonstrate effective teaching methods.
2. Sketch one curriculum development model and explain.

Taba Model of learning. This model is used to enhance the thinking skills of students. Hilda
Taba believed that there must be a process for evaluating student achievement of content
after the content standards have been established and implemented. The main concept of
this approach to curriculum development is that teachers must be involved in the
development of the curriculum.
Diagnosis of Needs
Formulating Objectives
Selecting Content
organizing Content
(Key Concepts
Main Ideas
Facts)
Selecting Learning Experiences
Organizing Learning Experiences

(Teaching Strategies for Cognitive Development)
(Teaching Strategies for Cognitive Development)
Evaluation
3. How do you evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum?

1. Identifying primary audiences.
 Curriculum Program Sponsors, Managers and Administrators, School Heads, Participants
(Teachers and Students) Content Specialist; other stakeholders.
3. Identifying critical issues/problems.
 Outcomes ( expected, desired, intended) Process ( Implementation ) Resources ( Inputs )
4. Identifying data source.
 People (teachers, students, parents, curriculum developers) Existing documents; Available
records; Evaluation Studies.
5. Identifying techniques for collecting data.
 Standardized Test, Informal tests; Samples of Students Work; Interviews; Participant
Observations, Checklist, Anecdotal records.
6. Identifying established standards and criteria.
 Standards previously set by agency; DepEd, CHED, Professional Organization.
6. Identifying techniques in data analysis.  Content Analysis, Process Analysis, Statistics,
Comparison, Evaluation Process.
7. Preparing evaluation report.  Written; Oral; Progress; Final; Summary; Descriptive,
Graphic, Evaluative and Judgmental; List of Recommendations. 8. Preparing modes of
display.  Case Studies; Test Scores Summary; Testimonies; Multimedia representation;
Product Display ( exhibits ); Technical Report.
4. Does the result of periodical test reflect evaluation of a curriculum?
The result gathered from a periodical test does reflect towards the evaluation of a
curriculum in terms of being able to reassess its effectiveness in the student's performance.
In theory, a set of subjects within a given curriculum should be easily learned by the
students. There has to be something wrong when the results from a periodical examination
come back with a high percentage of failures. The students can be blamed to a certain
degree but isn’t it the job of the school to gain most if not all of the learner's interest. It is up
to the establishment’s thinkers to design, adjust, and readjust techniques to provide the best
learning tools, in terms of environment, activities, and curriculum. If most of the learners
constantly fail in their periodical exams, then maybe it’s time to look for adjustments in the
way things are done.
Prepared by
May Anne C. Almario

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GRADUATE SCHOOL

1. What should we do to make a good curriculum and what should curriculum

2. Sketch one curriculum development model and explain.

Selecting Learning Experiences

Organizing Learning Experiences

3. How do you evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum?

May Anne C. Almario

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