Dear colleagues,
How could we evaluate the academic curriculum of a university department aiming to make it as up to date as possible in the case of a developing country?
Thanks in advance for your responses.
SM Najim
You may want to look up this article by Jennifer Lock and Patty Djyur "Three strategies for moving curriculum mapping"
Dear Mr. Salah Mahdi Najim
I writing to inform you that I read an article about your topic.
The article: Mike Allen & Raymond W. Preiss (1990) Using meta‐analyses to evaluate
curriculum: An examination of selected college textbooks, Communication Education, 39:2,
103-116.
Please find attached an article as a PDF file.
I hope I have been of some help.
Best wishes,
Andrija
Dear Dr. Kozina,
Please accept my deep appreciation for your valuable help.
Dear Salah
On hurry, a curriculum is a document containing the following:
1. Policy statement
2. Justification/rationale of the academic programme
3. the outcomes expected (graduates with what knowledge and skills)
4. The objectives (Instructional and learning)
5 . Contents (subjects, topics )
6. Methods of instruction (teaching and learning methods
7. Methods and means of learners assessment
8. Time scale for evaluation/How frequent)
Then the evaluation should be designed to examine each of these components through the examination of
a. Structure content of the document
b. The process of implementing the curriculum
c. The outcome of the curriculum implementation.
and this evaluation should help to identify gaps which need bridging and updating
Dear Dr Salah,
Please read the attached article which describe some measurements to assess the Effectiveness of a New.
Curriculum
Taking into account the curriculum is a contextualized document, built for an specific needs and institution; it is necessary to check the following issues:
- Has it fit the insitution goals and the students' needs to get success?
- Has it been contextualized appropiately?
- How has it worked til now?
You can add some more questions and design a Likert scale to get reliable information from the staff and students, of course.
Dear Najim,
In Brazil there is a platform called "Platform Lattes" . http://lattes.cnpq.br/.
HADDAD, E. A. ; MENA CHALCO, J. P. ; SIDONE, O. J. G. . Scholarly Collaboration in Regional Science in Developing Countries: The Case of the Brazilian REAL Network. International Regional Science Review, p. n/a-n/a, 2015.
MENA-CHALCO, JESÚS PASCUAL; JUNIOR, ROBERTO MARCONDES CESAR . scriptLattes: an open-source knowledge extraction system from the Lattes platform. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (Impresso), v. 15, p. 31-39, 2009.
To evaluate a curriculum, you need to have some questions on mind. You need to know whether your intention is to redefine, redesign and re-imagine or just make minor amendments.
All that has been said above is true. I can just tell you that it took me a whole year to assess a new curriculum, redefine curriculum objectives, re-write course syllabi, and do the related teacher training and then take care of the content of publicity drawing the attention to all the changes that took place.
Dear professors and colleagues,
Many thanks for your valuable answers.
While I feel strongly about the cultural aspects of knowledge and basis of a good solid liberal arts and professional education. One, today, may be rated upon how much money they make. If a person can find the right fit between career choice and economic survival or make a decent living, that would be a great accomplishment.
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