Outcome-based education is a topic of growing interest in educational circles today. More performance-oriented than traditional learning approaches, outcome-based education requires students to demonstrate what they know and what they can do. Because of this emphasis, outcome-based curricula will require new methods to assess student achievement. One approach is the portfolio, a repository that...

BACKGROUND Medical educators and powerful physician organizations agree on the importance of professionalism for the formation of good physicians. However, the many definitions of professionalism found in the literature lack content and differ significantly, undermining attempts to describe and implement professionalism curricula. The work of the contemporary moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyr...

a r t i c l e i n f o A pre-and post-test quasi-experimental design was used to test the impact of a 30-week, theoretically-based social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, The RULER Feeling Words Curriculum (" RULER "), on the academic performance and social and emotional competence of 5th and 6th grade students (N = 273) in fifteen classrooms in three schools. Academic performance was as...

This paper examines the base MSIS curriculum and proposes one interpretation of that curriculum to meet the demand of the Healthcare industry. The interpretation is built around the assessment of the identification of technical skills from students in two different majors that are the fundamental target of a healthcare academic program. Through the comparisons of difference in skill sets and pr...

Designing a systems engineering curriculum is a complex process, not in the least because it involves a variety of academic professionals whose perceptions and interests rarely concur from the onset. The variety in stakeholders breeds variety not only in values and objectives, but also in supposed—and mostly tacit—views of an educational system. In such an ambiguous design context, models serve...

The recently promulgated IT model curriculum contains IT fundamentals (ITF) as one of its knowledge areas. It is intended to give students a broad understanding of (1) the IT profession and the skills that students must develop to become successful IT professionals and (2) the academic discipline of IT and its relationship to other disciplines. The model curriculum recommends 33 lecture hours t...

This paper outlines the complex contemporary milieu of Australian teacher education within which curriculum leaders responsible for designing teacher education programs must make their program design decisions. Particular attention is paid to the collision of vertical (‘hierarchical’ or 'academic rationalist') and horizontal (‘flat’ or 'student-centred') curriculum discourses as a program desig...

Curriculum committees provide a valuable service to the academic community. They analyze, evaluate, organize and summarize the best practices of institutions from all over the world. In the rapidly changing world of IS, model curriculums take so long to develop that by the time they are applied, they simply can’t keep pace with change. In this paper we describe some of the insights yielded by a...

This article advances the prerequisite network as a means to visualize the hidden structure in an academic curriculum. Network technologies have been used for some time now in social analyses and more recently in biology in the areas of genomics and systems biology. Here I treat the curriculum as a complex system with nodes representing courses and links between nodes the course prerequisites a...

Major Changes to the Second Edition Chapters have been reorganized for improved understanding of the academic plan model on which the book is based. Greater emphasis is placed on the sociocultural contexts that influence curriculum planning. Includes a new chapter on institutional influences that affect curricular decision-making. Two coordinated chapters on learning and selecting instructional...