James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

ED4933:04

Curriculum Development and Evaluation in Schools

Townsville

HECS Band 1

20 hours lectures, 20 hours tutorials. Semester 2.

Available to level 4 BEd students and BEd (Professional Development) students.

Staff: Dr K Smith.

This subject is an integrated study organised round the choices facing practitioners as policy developers. It examines models of development and evaluation of curricula through a curriculum development activity.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to give students experience in viewing curriculum through the theoretical constructs available;
  2. to provide students with a number of curriculum development and evaluation techniques appropriate to classroom needs;
  3. to help students to learn to work on curriculum issues cooperatively and collaboratively with colleagues.

Assessment by an essay of 1,000 words that is a critical analysis of current curriculum development proposals (40%); a curriculum development task related to current developments (60%).