DPE 403

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT & EVALUATION

MODULE 5
ASSESSING THE CURRICULUM

ALVIN L. GUILLERMO, MAeD EVA FE F. TACLIBON, PhD

PhD Educ. Mgt.-Student PhD Educ. Mgt.-Professor
 CURRICULUM
 An ASSESSMENT
important part of the system
approach to curriculum development.
 Any information, data collected or
obtained through various process will be
analyzed for important making
decision process and evaluation.
 PURPOSES
 Highlight the curriculum
expectations.

 Gather information
about what students
know and can do.
 PURPOSES
 Motivate and encourage teachers to meet
the identified needs of students.

 Provide evidence to proof in students’

learning.

 Obtain feedback that helps in making

good decision to guide instruction.
INTENDED CURRICULUM

 Curriculum standards,
frameworks, or
guidelines that outline
the curriculum teachers
for what they expected
to deliver.
How to measure the Intended Curriculum?
 IMPLEMENTED
CURRICULUM
 Actual teaching and learning activities
taking place in schools through
interaction between learners and
teachers.
How to Assess the Implemented Curriculum?

Learning
Teachers’
activities are
competent
congruent
 Alternative
Materials and activities in
methods are different
appropriate
learning styles
 ACHIEVED CURRICULUM
 Indicates the knowledge, understanding,
skills and attitudes that learners
actually acquire as a result of teaching
and learning, assessed through different
means and/or demonstrated in practice.
How to measure the Achieved Curriculum?

Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes reflect the
achieved in skills/knowledge
approximate level intended to be
developed
Percentage of Curricular
Learning outcomes reflect
outcome to the goals of
performances community
 Implemented
(activities/
Intended materials) Achieved
(objectives) (test result
and
evaluation)

Summary
Tell whether the sentence is correspond to
Intended, Implemented or Achieved curriculum.
1. Reading a loud the poem to pronounce
correctly the vowel sounds.
2. The scores in the test show that the Implemented
majority of the students got 80% correct Achieved
answer.
3. To construct model that will
represent the molecules of the sugar. Intended
4. Teachers using a blended learning
approach. Implemented
5.The Administrators finalized the
qualities in searching the Most
Outstanding Teacher Achieved
awardee.
 Criteria for Curriculum
Assessment/Evaluation

 Set of standards upon which

the different elements of the
curriculum are being tested.

 It focus on objectives of
curriculum or teaching plan.
 What are the Goals and
Objectives?
 These are the statements of
curricular expectations.

 Curriculum content, such

as skills, behavior and
thought processes are
aligned to the needs of
students.
Elements in Formulating Criteria of
Goals and Objectives

Content Behavior

Criterion Condition
 Criteria for Goals and Objectives

 Syntactic Correctness.

 Compliance with legal

requirements.

 Both knowledge and

behavior are
addressed.

 Individualization
Criteria for Assessment of Instruction
 SUPPLANTIVE APPROACH

• Direct instruction.

• Promotes learning by providing explicit

directions and explanations to do the
certain task.

• Teachers will link new information with

their students’ prior knowledge.
 GENERATIVE APPROACH

• Constructivist or developmental.

• Teacher serves as facilitator.

• Students make own linkages to their

prior knowledge and devise own
strategy on their work.
 What are the Curriculum
Criteria?
 The goals of the curriculum or
teaching plan are clearly stated.

 Both teachers and students are

engaged in planning in defining
goals.

 Planned goals are related to society

and community.
 What are the Curriculum
Criteria?

 Planned goals are related to

individual needs and interest.

 Planned goals used as criteria in

evaluating students’ achievement.
 What are criteria of a good curriculum?
 Systematically planned and evaluated.

 Reflect the aims of the school.

 Arranges the learning opportunities
flexibly for adaptation.
 Utilize the most effective learning
experiences.
 Makes the maximum
provision for development.
 Evaluation
 It is a process of determining the value of
something or the extent to which goals are
being achieved.
 It is a way of making decision or reading a
conclusion.
 It is a process of using information based on
the collected assessment.
 Formative Evaluation
Formative Evaluation

 Takes place during the lesson or project

and tells the evaluator what is
happening.
Summative
Evaluation
 Takes place at the end of the lesson or
project and tells the evaluator what
has happened.

 Sums up the learning.

How does evaluation provides information?

 Directly to the learner for guidance.

 Directly to teacher for orientation on

next activity.

 Directly to external agencies for their

assessment on school.
Curriculum Evaluation

 It is a process of obtaining information

for judging the worth of an educational
procedure and educational objectives
for alternative approaches design to
attain the specified objectives.
Evaluating Curriculum