Pathology of curriculum evaluation in higher education

The time when the concept of evaluation is presented, it is considered as a determining value or competency. Two decades ago, an evaluation of the curriculum as an independent field of study appeared in educational sciences. Although the main issue is to evaluate learners rather than curriculums, the need to deep study of the nature and quality of curriculum reform led to a set of new concepts, principles, methods, theories and models. These ideas and new methods are the bases of the new domain of curriculum evaluation. Curriculum evaluation in higher education has faced a lot of challenges and has not yet found its position in curriculum construction. This research was carried out to investigate the challenges of curriculum evaluation in higher education and present guidelines on this issue. Lack of exact definition of curriculum and curriculum evaluation, lack of a defined and legal program for curriculum evaluation, lack of using professionals from inside and outside universities for the correct performance of evaluation, not defining the evaluation budget, ignoring the evaluation results and etc are of important challenges of curriculum evaluation in higher education.