Correct Answer:
B. Tyler
Curriculum models provide frameworks for designing and developing educational programs. The question asks for a deductive model, which moves from general principles to specific applications. Ralph Tyler's Rationale for Curriculum Planning is the correct answer because it is a classic deductive model. Tyler's approach begins with broad objectives derived from learners, society, and subject matter, then proceeds to select and organize learning experiences, and finally evaluates their effectiveness. This top-down, objective-driven sequence is inherently deductive.
- Taba's model is inductive, starting with specific curriculum components and building towards a general curriculum, often involving teachers in the process.
- Walker's Deliberation Model is descriptive and interactive, focusing on how curriculum is actually developed through stakeholder deliberation, rather than a prescriptive deductive or inductive process.
- Kerr's model is a cyclical framework of objectives, knowledge, learning experiences, and evaluation, but it is not primarily characterized as strictly deductive in the same linear fashion as Tyler's.