Research On The Evaluation Of School-based Curriculum Program

The school-based curriculum development is an important approach to the recent curriculum reform in china, and is made a crucial part of tri-level curriculum management. It includes the planning, designing and implementing of a school-based curriculum program. Therefore, it is necessary to emphasize evaluations during the stages of planning and designing, implementing for a consecutive improvement in the quality of a school-based curriculum. In this sense, school-based curriculum development is actually a process of evaluating and improving a school-based curriculum program. However, the stress of evaluation in the basic education has long been laid on the teachers and students but not on the curriculum program. Thus, the subject arises from the existing problem. This thesis consists of four parts:The first part is to clarify the history of program evaluation and introduce several comparatively effective evaluation models, from which the key ideas and elements inherent in program evaluation can be derived. Furthermore, A set of reasonable and effective criteria for program evaluation will also be established through literature analysis. Overall, the first part forms the theoretic foundation for the thesis.The second part begins with differentiating curriculum programs to define the connotation and extension of a school-based curriculum program. It then comes to analyze characters of the major elements of a school-based curriculum program and provide an evaluation model in which varied kinds of subjects evaluate and improve the school-based curriculum program.The third part focuses on the program evaluation in practice. Based on the evaluation model of school-base curriculum program, it's discussed that how different evaluators will effectively evaluate a school-based curriculum program pre, mid and post-implementation. In addition, some strategies, ways, tools as well as some evaluation cases are introduced.The last part is to discuss the requisites for the effective evaluation of school-based curriculum program, with a view to making it clear that the evaluation for the school-based curriculum program is not only a theoretic issue but also an issue of practice. The effective implementation of School-based curriculum program evaluation therefore needs the supports in terms of organization, system and staff.