Assessment of Guiding Principles of Curriculum Construction and Organization. Certain principles are inherent in constructing and organizing the curriculum. In one sense these principles are characteristics of curriculum construction and organization. In another sense they are continuing problems for curriculum developers. Supplementing assessment of the curriculum objectives, curriculum workers should assess the degree to which they implement basic principles of curriculum construction and organization. In this chapter we will describe eight perennial problems of curricu- lum construction and organization: scope, relevance, balance, integration, sequence, con- tinuity, articulation, and transferability. An evaluation process cognizant of these problems would provide answers to such questions as: