Deciding What to Teach and Test: Developing Aligning and Audition the Curriculum Book

	Foreword
	Preface to the Millennium Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
	About the Author
1	The Function of Curriculum in Schools	1
1.1	What Is Curriculum?	2
1.2	Curriculum Design and Delivery	3
1.3	Curriculum Coordination and Articulation	3
1.4	Combining Design/Delivery Issues in Schools	5
1.5	Different Perspectives on Curriculum in Schools	7
1.6	Conventional Practices and Complaints About Curriculum	9
1.7	The Necessary Requirements of an Effective Curriculum	16
	Key Terms and Concepts	17
2	A Template for Curriculum Construction	22
2.1	The Traditional View of Developing Curriculum	23
2.2	Using a Needs Assessment to Develop a Curricular Framework	33
2.3	Constructing Curriculum With Gap Data	39
2.4	Constructing "User Friendly" Curriculum Work Plans	41
2.5	Moving From Curriculum Content to Work Tasks	44
2.6	Constructing "User Friendly" Curriculum Guides	46
2.7	Essential Elements in Curriculum Guides	47
2.8	Setting Content Priorities and Expressing Time Values	52
2.9	A Word About Sequence and Stress	57
2.10	A Recommended Curriculum Guide Format	58
3	Aligning the Curriculum	63
3.1	The Process of Alignment by Frontloading	64
3.2	The Process of Alignment via Backloading	70
3.3	How to Do Alignment	83
3.4	Other Issues in the Alignment Procedure	89
4	Auditing the Curriculum	92
4.1	The History and Development of the Curriculum Audit	92
4.2	External or Internal Audit?	93
4.3	The Necessary Conditions to Engage in Auditing	95
4.4	Critical Assumptions of Curriculum Audits	99
4.5	Curriculum Audit Standards	107
4.6	Anticipating the Results of a Curriculum Audit	114
4.7	The Difference Between Auditing and Accreditation	116
4.8	After a Curriculum Audit, Then What?	117
4.9	Is Your School or District Ready for a Curriculum Audit?	119
	Troubleshooting Guide	125
	Further Resources for the Millennium Edition	129