Curriculum

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Not to be confused with Curriculum vitae.

A curriculum for the MD degree.

In education, a curriculum (/kəˈrɪkjᵿləm/; plural: curricula /kəˈrɪkjᵿlə/ or curriculums) is broadly

defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process.[1][2] The term often
refers specifically to a planned sequence of instruction, or to a view of the student's experiences in terms
of the educator's or school's instructional goals. In a 2003 study Reys, Reys, Lapan, Holliday and
Wasman refer to curriculum as a set of learning goals articulated across grades that outline the intended
mathematics content and process goals at particular points in time throughout the K–12 school program.[3]
Curriculum may incorporate the planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials,
resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives.[4] Curriculum is split into
several categories, the explicit, the implicit (including the hidden), the excluded and the extra-
curricular.[5][6][7]

Curricula may be tightly standardized, or may include a high level of instructor or learner autonomy.[8]
Many countries have national curricula in primary and secondary education, such as the United
Kingdom's National Curriculum.

UNESCO's International Bureau of Education has the primary mission of studying curricula and their
implementation worldwide.

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Curriculum

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The term curriculum refers to the lessons and academic content taught in a school or in a specific course
or program. In dictionaries, curriculum is often defined as the courses offered by a school, but it is rarely
used in such a general sense in schools. Depending on how broadly educators define or employ the
term, curriculum typically refers to the knowledge and skills students are expected to learn, which
includes the learning standards or learning objectives they are expected to meet; the units and lessons that
teachers teach; the assignments and projects given to students; the books, materials, videos, presentations,
and readings used in a course; and the tests, assessments, and other methods used to evaluate student
learning. An individual teacher’s curriculum, for example, would be the specific learning standards,
lessons, assignments, and materials used to organize and teach a particular course.

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Definition of curriculum
plural

curricula
play \kə-ˈri-kyə-lə\ also

curriculums

1. 1 : the courses offered by an educational institution the high school curriculum

2. 2 : a set of courses constituting an area of specialization the engineering curriculum the
biological sciences curriculum the liberal arts curriculum

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