Internal Evaluation Exemplar – Strengthening Curriculum Evaluation

Wondering how to evaluate whether your curriculum is making a difference to children’s learning?

This fully completed internal evaluation exemplar gives you a practical example of how one ECE service worked through an evaluation of its curriculum planning, assessment and teaching practice — from developing the review question and indicators, through to gathering and analysing evidence, identifying findings, taking action and monitoring improvement over time.

Developed around the review question:

“How effectively are we evaluating the impact of our curriculum on individual children’s learning?”

the exemplar allows you to see the complete evaluation process, rather than starting with a blank template and trying to work out what good internal evaluation should look like.

What’s included

The completed exemplar demonstrates:

• A clearly defined review question
• Research-informed indicators of good curriculum evaluation
• Analysis of curriculum planning and assessment practices
• How evidence can be gathered from multiple sources
• How findings inform decisions about what needs to change
• Action planning linked directly to identified findings
• Professional learning and improvement actions
• Monitoring and evaluation across a 12-month period
• How the overall findings of an internal evaluation can be brought together

You’ll also receive an editable Microsoft Word Internal Evaluation Template that you can use to record your own service’s evaluation.

A practical resource for service improvement

Rather than simply telling you how to conduct an internal evaluation, this resource lets you see how the different parts can connect in a completed example.

Use it to support leadership discussions, strengthen your own evaluation processes, inform professional learning, or help your team think more critically about the impact of curriculum planning, assessment and teaching on children’s learning.

It may be particularly useful for services preparing for an ERO review or wanting to strengthen their approach to ongoing curriculum evaluation and improvement.

Instant digital access

This is a digital resource. No physical product will be shipped.

Your purchase includes:

• Completed Internal Evaluation Exemplar – PDF
• Editable Internal Evaluation Template – Microsoft Word

Download your resources after purchase and use the exemplar to support evaluation and professional learning within your service.