Curriculum criteria are guidelines used to make decisions about curriculum and evaluate learning achievement. They include clearly stating curriculum goals and using them to choose content, materials, and activities. The criteria also involve engaging students in planning goals and assessing whether goals relate to society, community, individual learners, and are used to select learning materials and evaluate achievement. Characteristics of a good curriculum are that it evolves over time, is based on community needs, involves democratic input, results from long-term efforts, includes detailed plans, sequences subjects logically, complements other community programs, has educational quality, and allows flexible administration.

1. What are Curriculum
Criteria
Curriculum criteria are
guidelines on standard for
curriculum decision making.
The objectives of a curriculum
criteria, since they should be
used in selecting learning
experiences and in evaluating
learning achievement.

2.  1. Have the goals of the
curriculum or teaching plan
been clearly stated; and are
they used by teachers and
students in choosing content,
materials and activities for
learning?

3.  2. Have teacher and students engaged
in student-teacher planning in
defining the goals and in determining
how they will be implemented?
 3. Do some of the planned goals
relate to the society or the community
in which the curriculum will be
implemented or the teaching will be
done?

4.  4. Do some of the planned goals
relate to the individual learner and
his or her needs, purposes,
interests and abilities?
 5. Are the planned goals used as
criteria in selecting and developing
learning materials for instruction?

5.  6. Are the planned goals used as
criteria in evaluating learning
achievement and in the further
planning of learning sub goals and
activities?

6. Characteristics of a Good
Curriculum?
 1. The Curriculum is
continuously evolving.
 2. The Curriculum is based on
needs of the people.
 3. The Curriculum is
democratically conceived.

7.  4. The Curriculum is the result of a
long term effort.
 5. The curriculum is a complex of
details.
 6. The Curriculum provides for the
logical sequence of subject matter.

8.  7. The Curriculum complements
and cooperates with the other
programs of the community.
 8. The curriculum has educational
quality.
 9. The Curriculum has
administrative flexibility.