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Process of curriculum
development
Soumya Ranjan Parida
Learning outcomes
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
• Describe how to develop an outcome-based
curriculum or learning module
• Write learning outcomes for an evidence-based
practice module
• Describe appropriate teaching and learning
methods
• Describe appropriate assessment strategies
• Describe strategies for evaluating curricula
Curriculum development process
• Curriculum development is a process in which
participants at many levels make decisions
about the purposes of learning, teaching-
learning situation.
• It is the process of gathering, setting,
selecting, balancing and synthesizing relevant
information from many sources in order to
design the goals of curriculum.
Stages of curriculum
• According to Torres and Stanton the
curriculum process involves 4 main stages.
1. Directive stage
2. Formative stage
3. Functional stage
4. Evaluative stage
Phases in curriculum development
• Curriculum construction requires an
understanding of educational psychology,
together with knowledge and skill in the
practice of nursing education.
• There are three major phases in the
development of curriculum.
Cont ..
Phases Steps
1. Developmental phase
2. Implement phase
3. Evaluation phase
Planning , developing
Management, Implementation
Assessment of teaching
learning process
Curriculum development process