“Evaluation” Chapter 8

INTRODUCTION The evaluation is an indispensable part of a well made curriculum design. It guarantees that all found limitations in a curriculum design would be repaired. “The aim of this part of the curriculum design process is to decide how to check if the course is successful and where it needs to be improved.” Language curriculum design / I.S.P. Nation and John Macalister. The purpose of the evaluation is focused on how much information gathered through a period was and besides how well planed the process has been done. The process of evaluation should be taken seriously and with a very detailed care, as it is one of the most important parts of the education. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Significant aspects to consider in this chapter are: audience, types of evaluation and quality. I consider the evaluation must be based on some standard teaching techniques, meaning that the satisfaction of the students would be more than the minimum expected. Hence, we should start with the audience, to whom the curriculum would be addressed to, taking into consideration of course the environment and the population of the place; after that, there are some steps like: finding accurateness information and providing proper follow up, with the intention that the whole objectives would be well organized. I agree with the author in one thing, there is no best assessment, but it does not mean that, any teacher could evaluate whatever s/he wants just because, it must be a curriculum designed with specific objectives and instructions. By any reason, the students can have the feeling unfairness or threatened. In view of that, teachers ought to be basing on facts and fundaments not to make a subjective evaluation, but an objective one. Finally, the amount of quality in a curriculum design should not be taken lightly, but seriously and in a professional way in order to provide accurate and useful information. CONCLUSION As a conclusion, the main objective of an evaluation is the purpose and what kind of results we really need to discover while using different types of assessment. It does not really matter what type of evaluation we will be using, or what the purpose is, an evaluation must involves first, ethical methods in order to apply a very well support to each student.