Contact:
Joyce Donahue
Catechetical Associate for Curriculum and Child Catechesis
Phone: (815) 727-6411 x258
E-mail: jdonahue@dioceseofjoliet.org

Evaluation of Religious Education Texts
The Curriculum Center provides an annual published evaluation for parishes and schools within the Diocese of Joliet. Catechetical texts for early childhood, primary grades, junior high, senior high, youth ministry, and sacraments are evaluated upon their publication. The process of evaluation provides a recommendation based on the input of invited catechetical leaders. The recommendations are published as annual supplements to the main publication.

The evaluation process is simple, but intense. Committees comprised of catechetical leaders and teachers who are invited to participate in the process. Appropriate samples and evaluation forms are sent to each member of a committee. Each member is to scrutinize the texts based on the evaluation form criteria. The committee gathers and begins to seriously compare notes and comments. The curriculum director is present throughout this process.

Recommendations are published and added to 1999 Edition of the Evaluation of Religious Education Texts, a cumulative document.

The Religious Education Office maintains the right to deny evaluation of texts as well as the right to challenge the recommendation of the committee.

2006-2007 Evaluation of Religious Education Texts:    (PDF)*