Techniques of curriculum evaluation

1. Curriculum Evaluation
Techniques
Presented by: Surekha V S
Assistant Professor in Commerce Education
Sree Vivekananda Teacher Education Centre Akkikkavu

2. Curriculum Evaluation
It is an attempt to gauge the value and effectiveness of any piece of educational
project or a piece of work undertaken by or with pupils.
Curriculum evaluation fundamentally more concerned with deciding the value or
worth wholeness of a learning process as well as the effectiveness with which it is
being carried out .
It refers to the process of studying the merit or worth of some aspect of the whole of a
curriculum.
It include curriculum design, learning environment, instruction process, resourses
and materials used in instructional process.

3. Purpose of Curriculum Evaluation
● Substandard educational goals, materials and methods of instruction updated in
consonance with the advances in the socio-cultural and scientific field.
● To ascertain how different educational institutions interpret a given prescribed
curriculum.
● Course improvement- what instructional materials and methods are satisfactory
and where changes are needed.
● Decisions about individuals- identifying the needs of pupil for the sale of
planning of instruction, grouping and acquainting the pupil with his own
deficiencies
● Administrative regulations- judging how good the school system is, how good the
individual teachers are etc.

4. Levels of Curriculum Evaluation
i)Formative : during the curriculum development
ii) Summative : after a curriculum has been developed and implemented.
In the developmental phase, the exercise of formative evaluation serves as a feed-
back and influence the shape of the curriculum through successive revisions.
Summative evaluation is concerned with the appraisal of the emergent curriculum as
it is offered to the school system.

5. Curriculum Evaluation Techniques
a) Observation : It is related to curriculum transaction.
Observation schedule.
credibility
Interviews and feed-back and other documentary evidences
b) Questionnaire : It is used to obtain reaction of curriculum users namely pupils,
teachers, administrators, parents and other educational workers concerning various
aspects of prescribed curriculum are to be ascertained.

6. c) Check-list : It can be used as a part of questionnaire and
interview. It provides numbers of responses out of which most
appropriate responses are to be checked by the respondent.
d) Interview : It is a basic technique of evaluation and for gathering
information. It may be formal or informal in nature.

7. e) Workshops & Group discussion : In this technique, experts are
invited at one place to deliberate upon syllabi, materials etc; and
to arrive at a consensus regarding the quality of the same.
f)Delphi Technique : A “Remote Conferencing” is employed
instead of work-shop technique. It can be used at various stages
of curriculum development. This technique is cost effective and
provides an equal opportunity to all members of the group

8. Thank You……..