نقش و كاركرد ارزشيابي در مراحل تدوين برنامه درسي

Role and function of evaluation in curriculum development stages

Introduction: Curriculum evaluation is historically as rich as education. The evaluation concept is so comprehensive that contains several evaluation activities with the common function of investigating a certain curriculum in a given administrative context. Therefore, the evaluation methods and strategies are different. In this study, the differences in evaluation studies are classified on the basis of six factors; curriculum development stage, the evaluation subject, criteria, the types of data, data summarization method and function. In each stage, the development team focuses on a particular task; hence, certain types of evaluation are presented at each stage in order to ensure a successful administration of the new curriculum. Conclusion: There is no accepted theoretical base for the amount of stored experiments needed to determine the least evaluation essences that must be used in recognizing the effectiveness of expand usage of new curriculum in educational system and every system should determine its evaluation standards according to its conditions. Keywords: Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation