PTE Reading MCQ - choose multiple answers

Educational Institutions

It is possible to study the curriculum of an educational institution from a number of different perspectives. In the first instance, we can look at curriculum planning, that is at decision-making, in relation to identifying learners' needs and purposes; establishing goals and objectives; selecting and grading content; organising appropriate learning arrangements and learner groupings; selecting, adapting or developing appropriate materials, learning tasks and assessment and evaluation tools. Alternatively, we can study the curriculum 'in action', as it were. This second perspective takes us into the classroom itself. Here, we can observe the teaching/learning process and study the ways in which the intentions of the curriculum planners. which were developed during the planning phase. are put into action. Yet another perspective relates to assessment and evaluation. From this perspective we would try and find out what students had learned and what they had failed to learn, in relation to what had been planned. In addition we might want to find out if they had learned anything which had not been planned.

Which of these ways of looking at an institution's curriculum is outlined in the text?

a) observing what happens during lessonsb) evaluating the materials usedc) analysing the content of testsd) considering what is taken into account when preparing the curriculume) comparing this curriculum with other choices that could have been madef) reviewing actual learning compared to curriculum goalsg) assessing the effectiveness of teacher preparation for lessons

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