To understand curriculum evaluation, it is important to first understand what is meant by curriculum and evaluation. Curriculum may be interpreted broadly to mean instructional materials or processes, courses of study, and educational programs or interventions. In other words, curriculum may be considered as anything related to promoting educational growth. Evaluation may be considered a process of delineating, obtaining, and providing useful information for judging decision alternatives. Evaluation is the determination of the merit or worth of something, in this case curriculum. Evaluation can take many forms and follow several different theoretical paths, but it is a process of “valuing” and as such directly related to the perceptions of the stakeholders of the entity being evaluated. In a curriculum evaluation the stakeholders could be the designers of the curriculum, the deliverers of the curriculum, the receivers of the curriculum, and others impacted or having an interest in the.
