課程評鑑的概念

要了解課程評鑑的理論與實際，必須先了解課程評鑑的基本概念。本文之中，首先敘述評鑑概念的發展，除探討評鑑的歷史外，並分析影響評鑑發展的因素。其次，探討評鑑的意義，除了分析評鑑的新舊定義之外，也澄清「評分」、「評等」、「績效」、「測驗」、「研究」等概念和「評鑑」之差異。最後，探討評鑑在課程改革上的重要性，並剖析「教育評鑑」、「教學評鑑」和「課程評鑑」三個概念。

Curriculum planning is a matter of making choices， this does not imply that one choice is as good as another. Value judgments determine the appropriateness of each choice made， and curriculum evaluation is the proves used in judging the appropriateness of curriculum choices.Like any analytic term， evaluation can be defined in many essentially arbitrary ways. Three particular definitions that have gained common acceptance have certain advantages and disadvantages：the measurement definition， the c