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Curriculum Development Centre: A brief description of its role in developing and evaluating curriculum
1. Visit the website of Curriculum Development Centre, Malaysia

2. Prepare a brief description of its role in developing and evaluating curriculum. While doing this, see whether there is any committee responsible for the subject you teach in school or any subjects you are interested in? 3. See what is the role of that committee in developing and evaluating curriculum.

Shafeeq: .....

Tang : Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) is responsible for initiating curriculum development and for the development of the pre-school, primary school and secondary school curriculum. There are 6 committees to implement curriculum in Malaysia, there are: Educational Planning Committee, Central Curriculum Committee, Curriculum Implementation Committee, Division/ District Curriculum Committee and School Curriculum Committee. Each of the committees has their own functions to develop curriculum. '''For the assessment and evaluation, centralized examinations are held at the end of Year 6, Form 3 and Form 5. The results of these examinations are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum. Through information collected from surveys, class observation or test items, it will reflects the effectiveness of the curriculum and the Ministry is required from time to time to take follow up action, such as reviewing the syllabus, textbooks and other teaching materials.''' (Zamrus, A.R. and Mokelas, A. .(n.d) Curriculum planning, development and reform. Retrieved from http://www.ibe.unesco.org/curriculum/Asia%20Networkpdf/ndrepmy.pdf)

Fika : Curriculum development center located in Putrajaya Malaysia is the organization responsible for the development and evaluation of curriculum. As an organization that has a major role in the curriculum, the primary function CDC not only in terms of curriculum development but into it. The formulation is based on a valuation performed by teachers in schools based on an assessment of the student or any aspect contained in the curriculum. CDC also as the organization will ensures the Education Malaysia in accordance with the needs of society and global needs. Changes such as the curriculum of existing or develop new curriculum is intended to produce a quality curriculum for world class education by 2020. In addition, the CDC will ensure that the school curriculum is integrated and useful for the development of individual potential and to fully meet the needs of the country.

Sa'anisah: Curriculum development centre (CDC) plays main roles in formulating school curricula, disseminate and implement the curricula across the schools in Malaysia. CDC will also monitor the implementation of curriculum by providing support materials to ensure smooth implementation of curriculum. To ensure the development of curriculum, CDC will carry out an assessment of curriculum. CDC are responsible for development of preschool, primary school and secondary schools. There are various committee under ministry of education that involve in curriculum implementation. One of the committee that involve in the curriculum implementation are school curriculum committee. This committee will plan, organise and evaluate the process of teaching and learning at school, and works towards increasing knowledge of teachers and students by providing sufficient materials, training and assessment to the teachers and students.

Pathma : Malaysia’s system of curriculum development is centralized. The Ministry of Education through its central agency, namely the Curriculum Development Centre (CDC),is responsible for initiating curriculum development. The CDC is responsible for the development of the pre-school, primary school and secondary school curriculum. In the implementation of the curriculum, however, various committees have been set up in the Ministry of Education,State Education Departments, Divisions/District Education Offices and schools. Education in Malaysia is an on-going effort towards further developing the potential of individuals in a holistic and integrated manner so as to produce individuals who are intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and physically balanced and harmonious, based on a firm belief in and devotion to God. Such an effort is designed to produce Malaysian citizens who are knowledgeable and competent, who possess high moral standards, and who are responsible and capable of achieving a high level of personal well-being, as well as being able to contribute to the betterment of the family, the society and the nation at large.

Definition of the term "Curriculum"
My definition of 'curriculum'

Shafeeq: Curriculum is.....

Sa'anisah: plan for action or a written document that includes strategies for achieving desired goals or ends. (Tyler, 1949).

Tang: " Is a master plan for selecting content and organizing learning experience for the purpose of changing and developing learners' behaviors and insights" (David G. Armstrong, 1989).

My justification for choosing that definition of 'curriculum'

Shafeeq: I choose this definition becasue....

Sa'anisah: I choose this definition because a curriculum is a plan that contains a statement of aims and objectives. The plan should include strategies to achieve its purpose,  by selecting the content and patterns of learning and teaching. finally the curriculum should include an evaluation of the outcomes to measure the achievement of it's goals.

Tang: I choose this definition because curriculum is a plan of strategies that provide teachers or ministry to select a suitable content and organize learning experience which can fix and suitable to learners nowadays. since our information always updated and changed, in the era globalization, some of the "old" curriculum are not suitable to students nowadays. through a master plan, then a clear objective and goals will guide to select and organize the content and learning experience to students.

My review of other colleagues's definition

Shafeeq: Ika definition...

Fika :Batista & Clements (200); Beauchamp (1981) Curriculum is a written instructional blueprint and set of materials for guiding students’ acquisition of certain culturally valued concepts, procedures, intellectual dispositions, and way of reasoning.

Fika :I chose this definition because, it completely tells about what basically curricula are. In my opinion regarding this definition, curriculum need guide students in value concepts. The curriculum must have it owns value certainly straight of reasoning why student needs to learn. Curriculum as a completely written document will help teachers to guide students in class for increase their intellectual dispositions and not live the culturally valued concepts.

Pathma : Curriculum is what is taught  to learners – what is intended and unintended information, skills, and attitudes that are communicated to learners whether in schools or in other location where teaching takes place. •	E.J. Sowell (2005); Curriculum an Integrative Introduction

Pathma : I Choose is this definition because, the students needs unintended information, skills and attitudes where they learn. curriculum is the set of experiences, based on theory, research, professional practice, that student teacher should taught to pupils.



Your Concept Map based on reading page 3-14
Please make a photograph of your map and attach it here Pathma :The term curriculum refers to the lessons and academic content taught in a school or in a specific course or program. Depending on how broadly educators define or employ the term, curriculum typically refers to the knowledge and skills students are expected to learn, which includes the learning standards or learning objectives they are expected to meet; the units and lessons that teachers teach; the assignments and projects given to students; the books, materials, videos, presentations, and readings used in a course; and the tests, assessments, and other methods used to evaluate student learning. An individual teacher’s curriculum, for example, would be the specific learning standards, lessons, assignments, and materials used to organize and teach a particular course.

Definition of CURRICULUM EVALUATION
Based on your definition of curriculum, prepare a definition of CURRICULUM EVALUATION.

Shafeeq:....

Fika : Curriculum evaluation is a process to evaluate the existing curriculum to ensure that the curriculum is a form appropriate to the needs of students, community needs and the needs of the job market. Evaluation is done by the teacher with the syllabus, objectives and goals, as well as teaching methods based on six steps proposed.

Sa'anisah: Curriculum evaluation is an action to evaluate planned and implemented curriculum by analysing the whole curriculum including the blueprint, implementation strategies, materials and assessment to ensure the effectiveness of education in producing the best people and society.

Pathma : Curriculum evaluation is an essential phase of curriculum development. Through evaluation a faculty discovers whether a curriculum is fulfilling its purpose and whether students are actually learning. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe the implementation of a formative evaluation used by faculty members of a baccalaureate nursing program. . The process used by the evaluation team within the framework of the model is described in a step by step fashion. Faculty and student interview question sets and a sample course evaluation worksheet are presented.

Lata : Curriculum refers to the means and materials with which students will interact for the purpose of achieving identified educational outcomes. Arising in medieval Europe was the trivium an educational curriculum based upon the study of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. The later quadrivium (referring to four subjects rather than three as represented by the trivium) emphasized the study of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. These seven liberal arts should sound a lot like what you experienced during your formal education.

Lata : An education program that includes curriculum and activity co-curriculum which encompasses all the knowledge, skills , norms, values , cultural elements and beliefs to help develop all students in terms of the physical, spiritual , mental and emotional and to cultivate enhance the desired moral values and to convey its knowledge.

Lata :curriculum is defined as a plan or plans for action or a written document containing the strategy for achieving the goals internalized. curriculum is the element of culture or science to guide teachers to teach certain groups of students .curriculum also defined as an education program that contains all the knowledge, skills, values ​​and norms and cultural elements and beliefs that people's choice to be inherited from one generation to another.

Tang: Curriculum evaluation defines as the process of marshaling information and arguments which enable interested individuals and groups to participate in the critical debate about specific program. According to McNeil, Newman and Steinhauser (2005) claim that all definitions include two aspect: evaluation is systematic- it is planned and executed in accord with the plan and there is determination of worth of that which is evaluated.

Lata : curriculum in Malaysia aims to develop excellent human capital in terms of personality and academic. Have developed the curriculum built a comprehensive individual potential to produce a balanced intellectually, physically, spiritually and emotionally.

Lata : Curriculum evaluation is a kind of general program evaluation. To define curriculum evaluation, it is necessary to analyze the meaning of curriculum. Curriculum can be perceived not only as static curriculum texts, but also as dynamic curriculum activities. Curriculum evaluation is an essential phase of curriculum development. Through evaluation a faculty discovers whether a curriculum is fulfilling its purpose and whether students are actually learning.

Lata : Curriculum development centre (CDC) describes all the ways in which a training or teaching organisation plans and guides learning. This learning can take place in groups or with individual learners. It can take place inside or outside a classroom. It can take place in an institutional setting like a school, college or training centre, or in a village or a field. It is central to the teaching and learning process. Curriculum development centre (CDC) involves four main elements: 1. Identify what learning is needed and decide on the type of training you need to provide to meet these learning needs. 2. Plan the training carefully, so that learning is most likely to take place. 3. Deliver the training so that learning does take place. 4. Evaluate the training so that there is evidence that learning has taken place. These elements can be addressed in different ways. It is important that the approach can use will lead to effective training and teaching.