Quiz 3 - Curriculum Evaluation, Change and Innovation

Which of the following is the focus of curriculum evaluation?

• Determining the merit and worth of a program of study

• Identifying curriculum's weaknesses and strengths

• Decision making for curriculum revision

• Providing for the relevance of curriculum

The following questions EXCEPT ONE may be considered when evaluating a curriculum.

• Why evaluate the curriculum?

• What is expected in the conduct of curriculum evaluation?

• What part of the curriculum is going to be evaluated?

• How is evaluation going to be done?

A school's curriculum committee conducts an evaluation of curriculum materials such as curriculum guide and lesson plans. What intent of curriculum evaluation is involved?

• Appraisal of curricular attainments

• Determine the task of implementers

• Improvement of materials

• None of them

Process evaluation is used if the intent of curriculum evaluation is to

• Provide empirical data and information

• Assess degree of implementation

• Provide assistance to plans

• All of them

Which of the following is NOT TRUE about formative evaluation?

• Involves data obtained during curriculum implementation

• Done at the same time the program is running

• Usually involves data collection at the end of the program

• Intended to improve the program while it is implemented

Which of the following is considered a critical factor in doing summative evaluation?

• Identifying the indicators of summative evaluation

• Specifying the questions to be asked in the evaluation

• Nature of the items to be constructed

• All of them

The use of descriptive model of evaluation usually results to ____.

• a model description

• formulating empirical theory

• theoretical support

• generalization

Products of using prescriptive models of evaluation are usually described as _____.

• evolutionary

• theoretical

• exemplars

• empirical

Tyler's curriculum development model begins with which of the following?

• What teacher does in school

• School and teacher's philosophy

• The learners as inputs

• School's mission-vision

Which of the following is NOT a description of Stufflebeam's CIPP model?

• Pragmatic method

• Systems oriented elements

• Holistic evaluation

• Highly structured