Simulative evaluation procedures are employed at some predetermined terminal data for a curriculum project or for an innovative curriculum activity. To makes this type of evaluation procedure as precise as possible, all previous formative evaluations have to be considered as having some positive or negative effect.

All data that have been collected, considered together, should yield some conclusive to how successfully the original aims and objectives proposed for the programme were met. Questions that formative and simulative evaluation techniques should seek to include the following.