Curriculum is defined as the sum of all experiences,
which are to be provided in an educational institution.
According to Wheeler (1967) curriculum means the
planned experiences offered to the learners under the
guidance of the school. Curriculum has been defined by
Tanner & Tanner (1975) as the planned guided learning
experience and intended learning out-comes formulated
through a systematic reconstruction of knowledge and
experiences under the auspices of the school for the
learner’s continuous and willful growth in academic,
personal & social competence.
Evaluation is a word used in a variety of ways sometimes
with imprecise and overlapping meanings (Lawton,
1973). It is much wider than that measurement. It is more
fundamentally concerned with deciding on the value or
worth wholeness of a learning process as well as the
effectiveness with which it is being carried out.
Curriculum evaluation refers to the process of studying
the merit or worth of some aspect, or the whole of a
curriculum. Depending on the way in which the term
curriculum is defined, the focus or objects of curriculum
evaluation could include Curriculum design, Learning
environment, Instruction Process, Resources and
Materials used in instructional process
It is also essential to find out about the adequacy as well
as the provision of the required teaching resources
such as teaching aids, laboratories, library books and
instruments (Wiles & Bondi, 1989) Curriculum evaluation
is clearly a process by which we attempt to gauge the
value and effectiveness of any piece of educational
activity which could be a rational project, or a piece of
work under taken by or with pupils.
v PURPOSE OF CURRICULUM EVALUATION
Educational prepares future generation to take their
due place in the society. It becomes essential that substandard
educational goals, materials and methods of
instruction are not retained but up-dated in consonance
with the advances in social cultural & scientific field. It
is also important to ascertain how different educational
institutions and situations interpret a given or prescribed
curriculum. Hence, arises the need for curriculum