IDENTIFICATION OF THE CURRICULUM EXPECTATIONS OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE CURRICULUM OF WEST BENGAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION

Curriculum is an important factor in school education as it provides a frame and a guideline for the various stakeholders. Curriculum expectation is a crucial aspect of curriculum as it defines knowledge and skills, which are expected to be learnt by learners. After review of literature it was found that no study has been done India on curriculum expectation. Therefore the researchers had tried to identify the educational goals, overall and specific curriculum expectations of physical science of WBBSE by using content analysis technique. It was found that the goals of physical science could be classified under three major themes which further defining three overall expectations for each unit. The specific expectations were again the reflection of the respective overall curriculum expectation. The identified goals of science, overall and specific curriculum expectations were discussed in details in this article.