EDUCATION 471
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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE
Spring Semester, 1990
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Instructor: C. Wentzell
Wednesdays, 4:30-8:20
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Office:
Location: MPX 8620
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Phone:
PREREQUISITE:
60 hours of credit.
COURSE OUTLINE:
(a)
The history of curriculum design
(b)
The inter-relationship between curriculum and instructional design
(a)
Is a new curriculum necessary?
(b)
Curriculum parameters
(C)
Resources
(d)
Impact analysis
(e)
Forming a curriculum team
(f)
Schedule and budgeting
(a)
Identifying curriculum and instructional objectives
(b)
Presenting materials and teaching to those objectives
(a) Task analysis
(b) Item analysis
(c) Criteria for curriculum objectives
(d) Validation of objectives
(a)
Criteria for measures of achievement
(b)
Program evaluation
(a)
Criteria and reference tests
(b)
Test administration
(C)
Scoring Tests
(d) Norm referenced and criterion referenced similarities and differences
(e) Improving reliability and validity
(f) Grading
(g) Reporting student achievement
(a)
Teaching to the correct level of difficulty
(b)
Establishing learning prerequisites
(C)
Continuous progress models
(d)
Mastering learning concepts
(e)
Wholistic instructional methods
(f)
Continuous progress models
