The Tyler Rationale is a framework for curriculum development and evaluation proposed by Ralph W. Tyler in his 1949 book Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction. It organizes curriculum design around four fundamental questions: what educational purposes the school should seek to attain, what learning experiences can be selected to help attain those purposes, how those learning experiences can be organized for effective instruction, and how the effectiveness of the learning experiences can be evaluated. The rationale treats curriculum as a deliberate process built around measurable objectives rather than around rote content coverage or teacher-centered instruction, and the book that introduced it proved highly influential, going through 36 editions.
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Core ClaimThe Tyler Rationale holds that curriculum should be designed and evaluated by answering four questions in sequence: what educational purposes the school should pursue, what learning experiences can attain them, how those experiences should be organized, and how their effectiveness should be evaluated. 1 Sources
1. Ralph W. Tyler (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationThoughts on curriculum section, opening sentence
A decade after completing his work with the Eight-Year Study, Tyler formalized his thoughts on viewing, analyzing and interpreting the curriculum and instructional program of an educational institution in Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction (1949).
Thoughts on curriculum section, framework list
This book laid out a deceptively simple structure for delivering and evaluating instruction consisting of four parts that became known as the Tyler Rationale:
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