The document outlines Robert E. Stake's responsive model for curriculum evaluation, emphasizing a focus on program activities over intent. It details nine steps recommended for evaluators, starting from stakeholder engagement to the organization and reporting of findings. Stake's method aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the curriculum's implementation and real purposes.

1. 4. STAKE RESPONSIVE MODEL
- Responsive model is oriented more directly to program activities than
program intents. Evaluation focuses more on the activities rather than intent
or purpose.
ROBERT E. STAKE
 Leader in the development of program evaluation methods
 Director of Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum
Evaluation (CIRCE)
 Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign (appointed (1998)
Robert Stake (1975) recommends to the curriculum evaluator the following
steps.
STEP 1: Meets with stakeholders to identify their perspectives and intentions
regarding curriculum evaluation.
STEP 2: Draws from Step 1 documents to determine the scope of the
evaluation.
STEP 3: Observes the curriculum closely to identify the unintended sense of
implementation and any deviations from announced intents.
STEP 4: Identifies the stated real purposes of the program and the various
audiences.
STEP 5: Identifies the problems of the curriculum evaluation at hand and
identifies an evaluation design with needed data.
STEP 6: Selects the means needed to collect data or information.
STEP 7: Implements the data collection procedure.
STEP 8: Organizes the information into themes.
STEP 9: Decides with stakeholders the most appropriate formats for the
report.