Curriculum Audits

The Curriculum Management Audit is a third-party examination of the curriculum design and delivery system of a school or school district. Both curriculum policy and the system in which curriculum functions, are analyzed by the audit team. The report provides specific recommendations to improve those functions.

The audit will compare your district's performance against five standards. These standards represent working characteristics that any complex organization must have in order to be responsive and responsible to its clients. These standards pertain to the school system's ability to demonstrate:

• control of resources, programs, and personnel
• establishment of clear and valid objectives for students
• internal consistency and rational equity in program development and implementation
• use of the results from district designed or adopted assessments to adjust, improve, or terminate ineffective practices of programs
• improved productivity

The audit team uses documents, interviews and site visits as major sources of data to determine the extent to which there is congruence among the written, taught and tested curricula. The process is probably the single most powerful tool used for the improvement of curriculum, and student achievement.

Phi Delta Kappa's auditors have undergone extensive training. They come from all across the United States, Canada, and Europe and are employed as school district administrators, state departments of education personnel, university professors, and educational consultants.

For more information, contact:
Curriculum Management Center
P.O. Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47402-0789

Phone (toll free): 800-766-1156
Fax: 812-339-0018
Email: curriculum.audit@pdkintl.org