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Hill, John – NASSP Bulletin, 1985
Offers practical suggestions for minimizing 14 problems that frequently occur when curriculum programs are evaluated. Timing evaluations, evaluating appropriate factors, making meaningful comparisons, meeting skepticism, selecting tests, selecting evaluators, assessing evaluation results, and maintaining credibility are among the concerns…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
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Kember, David – Higher Education Review, 1991
A tongue-in-cheek look at methods used for curriculum development by many colleges and universities compares the process to two others: destruction of trees and trial by ordeal. Forests are destroyed to produce large quantities of paper for printing of curricula in many versions, followed by Kafkaesque committee scrutiny. (MSE)
Descriptors: Committees, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
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Talmage, Harriet – NASSP Bulletin, 1985
This article asks and answers the following three questions concerning curriculum evaluation: (1) why evaluate curricula; (2) if curriculum evaluation can be justified, then what are useful curriculum evaluation questions; and (3) given the constraints of time, money, and expertise, how can useful curriculum evaluation be conducted? (DCS)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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Kemp, Karen K.; Goodchild, Fiona M. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1992
Discusses efforts by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) to develop introductory college level courses in geographic information systems (GIS). Explores a year-long evaluation of the curriculum development project. Describes the objectives, components, and results of the evaluation. (SG)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods
Thoreson, Jeffrey A. K. – 1986
This study, which resulted in a revised music curriculum for the Snohomish, Washington, School District, addressed the problem of relating the measurement and evaluation of students in music courses to established student learning objectives. Part 1 establishes student learning objectives based on a proposed curriculum for a comprehensive K-12…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
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Meyer, J. H. F.; Watson, R. M. – Studies in Higher Education, 1991
A study evaluated a four-year undergraduate curriculum in occupational therapy based on the idea that qualitative differences in the way students approach learning, transferred to the group level, can help diagnose structural defects in a curriculum. Results and methodology are discussed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Cook, D. J. – 1988
This paper presents a short outline for evaluating the curriculum of post-16 noncompulsory education in the United Kingdom. The first, introductory section establishes a rationale for curriculum evaluation. The second section discusses a manageable sequence events for curriculum evaluation. It points out that the curriculum should only offer…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Hawk, Thomas R. – 1986
The evaluation criteria and procedures described in this report were developed at the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) for conducting audits of the college's programs, disciplines, and support services. Part I provides an introduction to the audit process, which involves the following steps: (1) identification of curricular areas to be…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria
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Julian, Frank H.; And Others – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1991
Reports results of a study that examines (1) the extent to which colleges have institutional policies requiring collection of outcome assessment data; (2) which outcomes measures are being collected; (3) which measures are considered most useful in political science departments; and (4) future institutional plans. Concludes that all measures are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Colleges, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research
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Hendershott, Anne; Wright, Sheila – Teaching Sociology, 1993
Describes the use of student focus groups to review and evaluate an interdisciplinary undergraduate program. Asserts that this technique reveals more significant information than using machine scorable tests. Concludes that the instructors' role is the most important factor in student attitudes toward a course. (CFR)
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
English, Fenwick – 1984
An overview is provided of curriculum management and "mapping," an auditing technique for assessing the content, time, and sequence of the taught curriculum as reported by the teacher. The general notion of management is first discussed in terms of three basic kinds of activities: defining purpose and mission, configuring available…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Problems, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1988
Curriculum mapping activities can be useful in analyzing curriculum goals and planning curriculum revision. This document is specifically designed using the Science Education Curriculum Goals articulated by the State of Oregon for grade 3. The goal areas include concepts, processing, manipulative skills, interests, values, interactions and…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Science
Adamson, Martin; And Others – 1985
Intended for use by curriculum committees or individuals charged with responsibility for the selection of provincially authorized learning resources, this document contains guidelines and procedures intended to serve as minimum standard requirements for the provincial evaluation and selection of learning resources. Learning resources are defined…
Descriptors: Classification, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bunda, Mary Ann – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1991
Development of a portfolio of achievement by each student, based on departmental definitions, can satisfy the assessment needs of the student and department faculty. The portfolio is a vehicle for monitoring student progress and initiating synthesis within a field of study. Portfolio building in the fine arts offers an example. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Fine Arts
Lamb, Ainslie – 1993
The expansion of higher education in the 1960s from an elite to a mass activity has led inevitably to a demand that higher education be responsive and accountable to the wider community. There are several approaches to evaluation of quality and economic effectiveness in higher education institutions and programs. In the mid-1980s, Australia's…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
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