Overview of the Visual Arts Curriculum, and Its Relationship with Evaluation and Instruction.

Evaluation and Instruction play very important roles in curriculum implementation. As a result, the two concepts are often enshrined in the curriculum document. This article therefore examined the Visual Arts curriculum and its relationship with evaluation and instruction. Furthermore, the roles of Evaluation and Instruction in curriculum planning and implementation were investigated. The article was approached as follows: Overview of curriculum; Overview of Art Education and the Visual Arts curriculum; Evaluation; Instruction; and Relationship between curriculum, instruction and evaluation. It was revealed that curriculum, evaluation and instruction are inextricably linked. That, while the Visual Arts curriculum is planned by the curricularist, instruction is what the Visual Arts teacher plans to realize the curriculum; that, evaluation is an enterprise carried out by the teacher at the implementation level. The findings were discussed as they apply to the Art Education Programme.