This paper provided not only a solid grounding in the subject, but also covered the latest trends and issues affecting the field. The strengths, weaknesses and controversies around major concepts in curriculum, including, curriculum planning and development, curriculum management, teaching perspectives, collaborative involvement in curriculum, curriculum ideology.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The need for change in medical curricula is increasing, due partially to tougher curriculum and evaluation standards. Participants in our academic medicine fellowship learn to develop curricula, but not all are successful at fully implementing them. This study looked for facilitators of and barriers to curriculum implementation by individual fellows. A literature revie...

Continuing education curriculum construction is the key work to complete the teachers’ continuing education system, it is also an important part of the teachers’ specialization. This study aims to master the main problems of the current primary and secondary school teachers’ continuing education curriculum construction and put forward the corresponding improvement countermeasures. Research in Y...

1.0 Introduction The multiple educational evaluation models and definitions developed by evaluation theorists reflect the diversity of ideas and approaches towards educational evaluation. The diverse meanings and definitions of the evaluation concept includes viewing evaluation as an assessment of the worth or merit of some educational objects (Stufflebeam, 2000a, 2000b; Trochim, 2006); assessm...

The increased level of accountability in higher education has prompted many computer-related programs to seek accreditation. As accrediting agencies continue to define and refine exactly what these degrees should entail, institutions struggle with the decisions of aligning their curriculum with a dynamic set of standards set by an outside agency, focusing on the needs identified by their own as...

Different Interpretations of a National Curriculum: A Reflection on the Islamic Republic of Iran's Ratified Curriculum N. Salsabili, Ph.D. Curriculum planning is a major task in any national educational system as it involves not only educational concerns, but socio-political and cultural issues as well. Given the variety of perspectives on each of these dimensions, it would be natural...

This paper describes the process used by the Computer Information Technology Department at PUC (Purdue University Calumet) during a major curriculum review and revision to implement the curriculum model developed by the SIGITE Curriculum Committee (Curriculum, 2005). The process was based on the learning outcomes set forth by the SIGITE curriculum model and the result is a structure that could ...

AIM The aim of this study was evaluation of constructive alignment of student perceptions to a spiral curriculum, as a pre-requisite to successful learning. METHOD A survey was undertaken to evaluate student thoughts and experiences of a spiral curriculum, by participation in an anonymous voluntary questionnaire. Students were asked to rate their thoughts on their understanding, perceived ben...

1. resources are metadata tagged according to all (an estimated 50 national/regional) curricula in Europe alone. This is very expensive in initial tagging and maintenance. 2. a mapping is provided between the different curricula such that if a resource is metadata tagged according to one curriculum (e.g. the Flemish curriculum), it can be discovered and shown in terms on another curriculum (e.g...