2. 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 a decision or reading
a conclusion.
3. Evaluation provides information
:
a. directly to the learner for guidance
b. directly to the teacher for orientation
of the next instruction activities.
c. directly to external agencies for their
assessment of schools functioning in the
light of national purpose.
4. 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.
(Glass and Worthem, 1997)
5. What is Curriculum Evaluation
Curriculum evaluation focuses on
determining whether the curriculum as
recorded in the master plan has been
carried out in the classroom.
6. In evaluating a curriculum, the following key
question are usually asked:
1. Are the objectives being addressed?
2. Are the contents presented in the
brecommended sequence?
3. Are students being involved in the
suggested instructional experiences?
4. Are students reacting to the contents?
7. Criteria for Evaluation
Significance – brings the content to
the degree to which it contributes the
basic ideas, concepts, principles and
generalization and to the development
of particular learning abilities, skills,
processes and attitudes.
8. Criteria for Evaluation
Validity – refers to the degree of
authenticity of the content selected
and to the congruence of the content
in the light of the objectives selected
9. Criteria for Evaluation
Interest - is the degree to which the
content – either caters or fosters
particular interest in the students.
Learnability – is the appropriateness of
the content in the light of the particular
students who are to experience the
curriculum.
10. Criteria for Evaluation
Feasibility - refers to the question,
“Can the selected content be taught
in the time allowed, considering the
resources, staff and particular
community?”
