1. Article review
Overview of the Visual Arts Curriculum, and Its Relationship with Evaluation and
Instruction.
IMONIKEBE Manasseh Emamoke, a researcher believe that Visual Arts curriculum should
implent the stage of Evaluation and Instruction as it play an important role in order to shape a
good structional studies in Visual Art Education.The researcher find out that this two concept
should established in curriculum document and moreover should be related towards Evaluation
and Instruction.This two stages of Evaluation and instruction will be experimented as it can be
successfully implemented in Visual Art curriculum.Thus,the researchers tend to discover and
approaching:Overview of curriculum as the first stage.In this part,the researcher find out about
knowing a knowledge of curriculum and its conceptualization.This learning package can be
seen as the academic learning should create its own activities.Basically,the researcher tend to
explore and define the curriculum generally.The next approach is,on Overview of Art Education
and the Visual Arts curriculum.The researcher peel out and viewing the point of the emergence
of Art Education dates back to about 200 years ago. Art Education began in response to the
industrial revolution, a discipline concerned with art teaching as a practice and the field of
inquiry which studies teaching and learning art. The discipline which enabling individuals
acquire skills of artistic expression, designing, knowledge of art, its history and critical
apprehension.The researcher believe art education will build up based on these area as it will
be the foundation of learning art education.Firstly is, aesthetics with its varied conceptions of art
and its value in human experience,then, art History, studio and criticism as content
sources.Thirdly is, Curriculum study to conceptualize goals, content, methods and their
interrelation.Fourth is, History of Art Education which studies developments in relation to social
changes and culture policy and lastly is the Empirical research which describes and explains
individual and group behaviours associated with art learning and aesthetic response” (Efland,

2. 1991).The major finding of the researcher in this part of the journal is Visual Arts curriculum
would depend also on the approach. Cunliffe (1998) explicated on two main approaches, the
Creative Self- Expression and the Disciplined-Based Art Education (DBAE).
The next section of this studies ,the researcher revealed out the two critical factors which
included in the curriculum document which are evaluation and instruction.These are the key role
and a great structure in curriculum implementation. Overview of Evaluation Trochim, (2006)
viewed evaluation as an activity that is concerned with using monitoring and information
collected for making judgments about a project and in addition the use of such information for
making changes and improvements. He went further to add that the activity is aimed at
answering “agreed questions and to make a judgment against specific criteria. A good
evaluation data must be collected and analysed systematically and its interpretation considered
carefully, assessing value, or worth of something” taking a decision and using results of an
evaluation are part of the process.The goal of the evaluation is the feedback. The provision of
useful feedback is the generic goal of most evaluations.Then,the researcher define the concept
of instruction and somehow it reavelled as a quality of instruction dependent on some
factors.This total shows that the instruction could be poorly done or might be sound effective as
well.However,the research generated well as the researcher find out the “With curriculum being
the content of what is taught along with an overall process of how that content is to be taught,
and the instruction being the more detailed plans and the way those plans are implemented in
order to teach the curriculum content, it becomes easy to understand that the two must be
compatible in order to maximize student learning” (Yates, 2000). However,another view stated
from Alkin(1973) viewed curriculum as consisting” intended learning outcomes; the results or
ends of an instructional activity” while instruction on the other hand has to do with planning and
teaching (Alkin, 1973).Somehow,in learning scene nowadays,in 21 century education era,it was
being observed that curriculum is essentially a design, or roadmap for learning and as such

3. focuses on knowledge and skills that are judged important to learn. Instruction is the means by
which that learning will be achieved”.
The researcher now generated the research via the relationship between the evaluation and
instructional and clearly claimed that from time to time through evaluation of instruction; new
approaches are evolved to improve teaching and learning. For instance, Hall, T. (2002) dwelt
elaborately on differentiated instruction an improved instruction culminating in a process to
address students’ teaching and learning involving differing abilities in the same class. Several
other approaches have been canvassed and popularized over time being outcomes of
evaluation of instruction. The researcher come out and conclude all the relationship which help
the constructional of the Visual art education curriculum.The relationship therefore that exists
between curriculum and evaluation is inextricable. Evaluation is required in curriculum both at
the formative and summative levels. Curriculum requires evaluation for improvement of teaching
and learning in schools.
Overall,the researcher expand the quality of the structure which it reavelled from the relationship
between the component approached.Its also show the formation and planning of basic principle
of curriculum globally.The researcher strengthen The content areas of the Art Education
programme and the Disciplined Based Art Education approach which is in use all over the world
were discussed. The article further revealed that curriculum and evaluation are related each
other as a result of their complementary roles.Same goes to the component of evaluation,which
relies on instruction in order to be relevant.