Document Type : Research Article (Quantitative)

Authors

1 PhD student, Department of Educational Sciences, Azadshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Azadshahr, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Azadshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Azadshahr, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Azadshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Azadshahr, Iran.

10.22034/ijes.2023.710474

Abstract

Purpose: Curriculum in any country is the center of educational activities, and considering the differences in the curriculum, the purpose of this study was comparing the process of training, learning and evaluating in the Iran's national curriculum with curriculum theories.
Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of execution method was comparative. In this study, the research population was all curriculum documents and related theories in this field, which its example was Iran's national curriculum document and the made criticisms in this field and curriculum theories experts, which they were compared in terms of the process of training, learning and evaluating. The recorded data from document and criticisms and interviews with experts about the process of training, learning and evaluating were compared in the Iran's national curriculum with curriculum theories. In this study, validity was confirmed by triangulation method and reliability was obtained by Cohen's kappa coefficient method 61.8 percent.
Findings: The findings showed that the Iran's national curriculum in addition to differences with curriculum theories in terms of the training process, considers training as a basis for innate tendencies expressing, recognizing the success of the learner and continuously improving it and influencing the students' perspective in relation to themselves, God, others and creatures, in terms of the learning process, considers learning as a result of creative interaction, purposeful, active learner and diverse environment, and in terms of the evaluating process, considers evaluating as a clear and comprehensive picture of the current situation, specifying the student's distance with the next situations and its modification, according to the student's capacities and needs, basic for selectivity and self-management, basic for student's continuous growth with an emphasis on self-evaluating, use of other evaluating methods, improvement of the student's position and attention to learning deficiencies while maintaining human dignity as an opportunity to reform and improve the educational system.
Conclusion: The Iran's national curriculum while paying attention to the characteristics of curriculum theories, should be re-designed on the basis of the country's social and cultural system and in line with the realization of the main ideal, that is closeness to God and a virtuous life

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