Analytical Moment: Curriculum Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 177-223
Author(s):  
Eun-Ji Amy Kim
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Analysis

scholarly journals The tracer method of curriculum analysis in cancer education

1976 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 512-4
Author(s):  
J M Mahan ◽  
J J Costanzi ◽  
H G Levine
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Education ◽  
Tracer Method ◽  
Curriculum Analysis

scholarly journals Content analytics for curriculum review: A learning analytics use case for exploration of learner context

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah P. Macfadyen
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Curriculum Analysis ◽  
Curriculum Review ◽  
Curriculum Renewal ◽  
Text Content ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Curriculum analysis is a core component of curriculum renewal. Traditional approaches to curriculum analysis are manual, slow and subjective, but some studies have suggested that text analysis might usefully be employed for exploration of curriculum. This concise paper outlines a pilot use case of content analytics to support curriculum review and analysis. I have co-opted Quantext – a relatively user-friendly text analysis tool designed to help educators explore student writing – for analysis of the text content of the 17 courses in our online master’s program. Quantext computed descriptive metrics and readability indices for each course and identified top keywords and ngrams per course. Compilation and comparison of these revealed frequent curricular topics and networks of thematic relationships between courses, in ways that both individual educators and curriculum committees can interpret and use for decision-making. Future Quantext features will allow even more sophisticated identification of curricular gaps and redundancies.

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