Curriculum evaluation process in Pakistan
Curriculum evaluation process in Pakistan presents the last stage within the cyclical process of development and improvement of curriculum. Evaluation of curriculum in pakistan play an important role in the process of monitoring the progress of institutions. So without evaluation process of curriculum development it would be hard to imagine the monitoring process of any institution progress. Evaluation of curriculum is necessary to provide the evidences to stakeholders and institutions in order to make decisions in right directions. Evaluation of curriculum development process helps to identify the problems inside the curriculum and institutions and also help the curriculum planners so that they can solve these problems by redesigning certain topics of Curriculum. Evaluation of curriculum can be performed as two terms first is short term evaluation process and second is long term evaluation process.
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Short term evaluation
Short term evaluation process has a role of friendly analysis.
Long term evaluation
Long term evaluation process is very important because it has much deeper impact.
In Pakistan curriculum is evaluated by school because all that happens in a school has some impact on society and it also leave an impact on students because students are also part of society in which they work and live.The curriculum effectiveness is judged by assessment of students in which students are required to perform some actions such as perform experiments, drawing pictures and other educational activities are also performed by the students. Assessment is used to determines the students skills and knowledge output that helps the curriculum planners to know about the effectiveness of curriculum.
Evaluation of curriculum development process
The process that is used to know about the effectiveness of curriculum by presenting it to the ministry of education or taking students tests or taking review about the curriculum content from curriculum experts Is called evaluation of curriculum development process.
Forms of curriculum evaluation
There are two basic forms of evaluation of curriculum development process;
• Formative evaluation of curriculum
• Summative evaluation of curriculum
Both forms are used to know about the effectiveness of curriculum.
If you want then you can add two further forms of evaluation process;
• Diagnostic evaluation of curriculum
• Placement evaluation of curriculum
Now we discuss firstly two basic forms of evaluation of curriculum development process;
Formative evaluation of curriculum development process
The evaluation that is used during the curriculum development process to improve the quality of curriculum content is known as formative evaluation of curriculum development process.
Formative evaluation of curriculum development process is used to know about the strengths and weaknesses of curriculum content, materials and methodologies. Weaknesses are improved before the curriculum development process completion.
Formative evaluation give us answers of two questions:
• Instruction is successful or not?
• If instruction is not successful, what can be done to get success?
Formative evaluation of curriculum development process ensures that all aspects of curriculum are likely to produce success. It delivers information that is used to know about the curriculum quality and helps to stop doubtful content of curriculum from being implemented. That’s why formative evaluation of curriculum development process is used during the curriculum development process.
Summative evaluation of curriculum development process
The evaluation that is used at the end of curriculum development process to improve the quality of curriculum content is known as summative evaluation of curriculum development process.
Summative evaluation of curriculum development process is used to know whether or not the curriculum can perform as the curriculum originators and designers intended. Summative evaluation of curriculum is also used in training of teachers so that they can implement the curriculum successfully.
Summative evaluation of curriculum development process is used at the end of curriculum development process to ensure that curriculum development process has been completed and objectives of the curriculum have been achieved.
Formative and summative evaluation of curriculum development process are used wherever the evaluation of curriculum take place. Formative and summative evaluation of curriculum development process are used in educational programs.
Diagnostic evaluation of curriculum development process
The evaluation that is used to solve the problems that occurs during the curriculum development process is called diagnostic evaluation of curriculum development process.
Diagnostic evaluation of curriculum development process is used to know about the problems that create disturbance during the curriculum development process. When problems found the curriculum planners solve them in order to make the curriculum development process effective. It helps the curriculum planners to know the quality of the curriculum.
Placement evaluation of curriculum development process
The evaluation process that is used to know that the prepared curriculum is able that it can be implemented is known as placement evaluation of curriculum development process.
When curriculum is ready to implement then placement evaluation of curriculum development process helps the curriculum planners to implement the curriculum successfully.
Functions of evaluation of curriculum development process
Curriculum evaluation helps to inform the curriculum planners on the state of affairs of curriculum syllabuses or programs and enables the teachers to evaluate themselves.