The educator known as the father of curriculum evaluation is

American famous educator, curriculum theory expert and evaluation theory expert. He is an important founder of modern curriculum theory and a master of scientific curriculum development theory. Taylor is known as "the father of contemporary educational evaluation" because of his outstanding contributions to educational evaluation theory and curriculum theory.

The Basic Principles of Curriculum and Teaching published by him in 1949 is regarded as the Bible of modern curriculum theory. Taylor principle put forward by him is recognized as the most perfect, concise and clear exposition of curriculum development principle, which has reached a new historical stage in the development of science curriculum development theory.

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Taylor's "curriculum principle" can be summarized into four steps: determining the curriculum objectives, selecting the curriculum content according to the objectives, organizing the curriculum content according to the objectives, and evaluating the curriculum according to the objectives. Among them, determining the goal is the most critical step, because all other steps are carried out around the goal. That's why people call it goal mode.

In Taylor's view, in order to study the curriculum plan systematically and rationally, we must first determine the goals to be achieved. Unless the evaluation method conforms to the course objectives, the evaluation results are invalid. It can be seen that the essence of evaluation is to determine the consistency between the expected curriculum objectives and the actual results.

The goal evaluation model emphasizes that the goal should be stated in a clear and concrete way of behavior. Evaluation is to find out the gap between the actual results and the course objectives, and this kind of information feedback can be used as the basis for revising the course plan or modifying the course objectives.

Because of its simple operation and remarkable effect, this model has long occupied a dominant position in the curriculum field. However, because we only pay attention to the expected goal and ignore other factors, it has led to many people's criticism.