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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of preschool mental retardation students’ curriculum of West Azerbaijan in school year 91-90. Method of this study was evaluation method. The study sample consisted of managers, professionals, teachers and students of West Azerbaijan province centers and due to low number of samples whole number was used and samples of students choose based on Morgan and multiple cluster sampling. Questionnaire, check lists, scores of students prepares for graduate and school documents were used to collect data. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean) and inferential statistics (t one variable) was used. The results of this study showed that the quality of the learning environment and educational organization were unfavorable according to administrators, teachers and observers. Curriculum’s quality was good according to all groups. The quality of the teaching and learning process were favorable according to administrators and teachers and undesirable according to experts. Quality of achieving the goals of the cognitive development was good according to managers and unfavorable according to experts, teachers and Manual recruits. Achieving the goals of quality physical and motor development was undesirable according to teachers, administrators and experts and was desirable from book assessment and teachers. To analyze the results of the findings additional tools (analysis of open-ended questions) was used. Conclusions explain the results and provide recommendations in this area.
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