Curriculum Development and Design Flashcards

A teacher designs a unit where students apply science, math, and history concepts to analyze a historical environmental disaster. This represents:

Answer: Interdisciplinary curriculum

Interdisciplinary curriculum deliberately blends multiple disciplines around a central theme or problem, integrating their concepts and methods.

In curriculum mapping, what is the PRIMARY purpose of collecting teachers' calendar maps?

Answer: To identify gaps, repetitions, and alignment issues across the curriculum

Calendar maps show what is actually taught and when, enabling curriculum leaders to spot gaps, redundancies, and misalignments.

Which curriculum model places student developmental needs and interests at the center of all design decisions?

Answer: Child-centered (learner-centered) model

The learner-centered model, rooted in progressive education, designs curriculum around students' needs, interests, and developmental stages.

TJHSST's senior research thesis requirement serves which curriculum purpose?

Answer: Demonstrating capstone integration of knowledge and skills

A capstone project requires students to synthesize and apply cumulative learning, demonstrating mastery of a program's full breadth of outcomes.

Which approach to curriculum development is most closely associated with Ralph Tyler's four fundamental questions?

Answer: Technical-scientific (rational-linear) model

Tyler's rationale is the classic technical-scientific model: identify purposes, select experiences, organize them, and evaluate effectiveness.

When curriculum designers ensure that exit outcomes of one course match entry expectations of the next, they are addressing:

Answer: Vertical articulation

Vertical articulation aligns what students learn in one course with what is expected as prior knowledge in subsequent courses.

A curriculum team uses student achievement data, teacher feedback, and graduate surveys to revise a program. This process is called:

Answer: Curriculum evaluation and revision

Curriculum evaluation and revision uses multiple data sources to systematically judge program effectiveness and make improvements.