Tee's Intro To Curriculum Development

What is the definition of curriculum development?

• A planned, purposeful, progressive, and systematic process to create improvements in the educational system

• A process to update school curricula to address the society's needs

• Both a and b

• None of the above

What is the importance of curriculum development?

• It is only about the school, the learners, and the teachers

• It is about the development of society in general

•  It plays a vital role in improving the economy of a country

• Both b and c

What is a curriculum model?

• A guide used in writing the curriculum

• A model that determines the type of curriculum used

• A model that encompasses educational philosophy, approach to teaching, and methodology

• All of the above

What are the four essential questions that Tyler's curriculum development model emphasizes?

• Purposes, experiences, organization, and evaluation

• Objectives, activities, assessment, and instruction

• Needs analysis, planning, implementation, and review

• Learner characteristics, content selection, teaching methods, and assessment

What is the main idea behind Taba's grassroots approach to curriculum development?

• The curriculum should be authored by administrators

• The curriculum should be authored by the users (teachers)

• The curriculum should be authored by experts in the field

• The curriculum should be authored by the students

What are the four distinct categories of objectives in Taba's approach?

• Cognitive, affective, psychomotor, and social

• Content, skills, attitudes, and values

• Knowledge, comprehension, application, and analysis

•  Instructional, behavioral, performance, and outcome

What is the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning ?

•  Inductive is a top-down approach, deductive is a bottom-up approach

•  Inductive is a bottom-up approach, deductive is a top-down approach

• Inductive emphasizes concept formation, deductive emphasizes direct instruction

• Inductive is used in Taba's approach, deductive is used in Tyler's approach

What are the seven stages of Taba's curriculum development model?

• Needs assessment, objectives, content, learning activities, organization, evaluation, and revision

• Situation analysis, goal setting, content selection, learning experiences, instructional strategies, assessment, and implementation

• Diagnosis of needs, formulation of objectives, selection of content, organization of content, selection of learning experiences, organization of learning experiences, and determination of what to evaluate and of the ways and means of doing it

• None of the above

What is the focus of the technical-scientific approach to curriculum development?

• Knowledge acquisition and what knowledge is most important for students to gain

•  Developing skills and competencies for the 21st century

• Addressing the diverse needs and interests of students

• Promoting critical thinking and problem-solving

What are the key features of the Tyler rationale?

•  It presents a blueprint with goals, objectives, and step-by-step sequencing

• It is very teacher-centric and focuses on content and structured assessment tools

•  It prioritizes what students will be learning and the explicit goals and objectives they must achieve

• All of the above