Curriculum Improvement: Decision Making and Process (9th Edition)

By Ronald C. Doll

Book Overview

The Ninth Edition of "Curriculum Improvement" is comprehensive, unique, practical, and thought-provoking. Despite the problems it cites, the book offers a message of hope-- that schools can help to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205164579
• ISBN13: 9780205164578
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Text Critique

Curriculum Improvement (9th Edition) - Doll For me, this book is a keeper. It provides all the information that an administrator needs about curriculum. Many factors are involved in the decision-making process in curriculum development and this text offers a step by step process for accomplishing this task. Doll starts off by offering several definitions of curriculum as well as the history behind curriculum decision making. Doll follows this up with examples of curriculum design and why they are designed they way they are. I know that I will use this book as a reference guide whenever I have any question about curriculum.

Curriculum Planning By Doll

Throughout this course, both of the books used were extremely helpful. Curriculum Planning by Doll taught me a lot about curriculum, its history, designs, social and cultural forces that affect it, the priorities in the curriculum, etc. Being a student only, not a teacher, it taught me a lot of what teachers are exposed to everyday and I really enjoyed it because I think it is a very useful and important book containing crucial information.I wish I would have had the Guide for Developing Interdisciplinary Thematic Units before, it was extremely helpful and I think it is going to be all though my courses and probably in the future once I start teaching. Extremely helpful book, it simplifies everything a thematic unit should have.For the first time in my life, as to my history of taking courses, I really do feel that these two books will help me a lot through life. Also between the books, the professors' comments and the research done on my own, I must say I have learned a lot from this class.Lissette Guerra 290-174th Street Apt. 901 North Miami Beach, Florida 33160 (305) 935-5068 lguerrap@hotmail.com CUR 505- Curriculum and Instruction: Exceptional Student Education

Curriculum Improve Decision Making And Process

This writer found this book Curriculum Improvement, by Ronald C. Doll to be very informative and interesting. The elements of a curriculum are well defined. It systematically takes you through the entire process step by step.This writer especially enjoyed the historically background to curriculum. It deals with the clinical and practical approaches to curriculum. All school systems should use this book as a guide when implementing a new curriculum or improving upon the old.

A Good Reference

Curriculum Improvement by Ronald C. Doll was packed with information.Mr. Doll addressed the reader with dignity without condescending while addressing such a towering subject. Yet he started at the very beginning of curriculum with no assumptions of the reader's knowledge. The reading was easy and practical for such an expansive subject. After reading this book you definitely gained respect for curriculum designers, educational administrators and teacher practitioners who effectively do there part in delivering effective curriculum. The organization of the book was purposeful in that you obtain awareness of what it takes and how much it takes to create good curriculum. It is written in such a manner that you easily find the subjects needed. With all of the data in the book, the author does not purport to be the end all. Rather he gives food for thought, what has happened in the past and attainments for which to strive.This book is an excellent reference. Any practitioner would do well to have it their professional library.

Curriculum Planning by Roanld C. Doll

Although the textbook is very technique in composition, it has a lot of relevant information for someone like myself beginning in the CIT program. It was very informative in that it provided lost so background information on specific topics. The author provided an abundance of examples and models to utilize when teaching various concepts. Textbook contained many points of views. Textbook was subdivided in that it provided for background information--framework on curriculum design. It began with a historical and philosophical foundation (identifying areas of concern in your environment, well-known people in the curriculum field and history of the schol system with curriculum design. the curriculum material included How learners grow and develope--identifying students with deficit, Social and Cultural forces affecting curriculum design-technology, traditional challenges, diverse cultures, Subject Matter--disciplines organizing and adapting curriculum materials to reach all learners.Part 2 of the textbook covered the processes needced to improve the curriculum. It had the teacher's point of view, the politicians, and whether or not the schols were being run as a business. Way sto evaluate students and the curriculum to be sure the curriculum is teaching the skills the sdtudnets need to be successful. It included allowing studdnts and parents to be rsource when adopting a curriculum. At the end, the author discussed somne of the leaders problems with devising a curriculum sutiable for everyone.