ABSTRACT
The most curriculum designers and developers believe that one need to establish a set of ideal steps that will lead to coherent proposals for curriculum change and when incorporated in the curriculum proposal, enable it to be successfully adopted. Curriculum design is concerned with plotting the steps that need to be followed in devising and/or outlining a curriculum. Engaging in curriculum design is therefore comparable to engaging in the task of formulating ground rules for those who want to write successful advertising copy or good novels. The different attitudes to curriculum design are in part related to our different conceptions of schooling and education, and in part to our different views about the desirability of seeing curriculum design as an applied science. The general rule that evaluation procedures ought necessarily to be stated in a curriculum outline or for more particular rules about how they should be presented.
