David A. Squires

Curriculum Alignment

Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This resource offers school administrators and curriculum specialists practical guidance for aligning curriculum and instruction with state standards and assessments to improve teaching and learning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corwin
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781412960076
• ISBN-10: 141296007X
• Artikelnr.: 23504571

Autorenporträt

David A. Squires is currently an associate professor working with doctoral students in the Educational Leadership Program at Southern Connecticut State University, specializing in curriculum, school reform, and organizational development. Previous positions include with the Comer School Development Program at Yale University; as a central office administrator for over a decade in Red Bank, New Jersey, where student achievement improved from below to above grade level; as a research specialist at Research for Better Schools in Philadelphia; as a graduate research assistant in the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his doctorate in curriculum and supervision with minors in language arts education and administration; and as a high school English teacher in suburban Pittsburgh and inner-city Cleveland. He heads a consulting firm, ABC Education Consultants, LLC, that assists school districts in writing and implementing the Balanced Curriculum.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments About the Author Part I. Alignment and Instruction, Textbooks, and Standardized Tests 1. Introduction to Curriculum Alignment What is Alignment? Alignment Problems The Alignment Matrix 2. Alignment and Instruction Introduction The "Reform Up Close" Study and Alignment Dimensions Instructional Alignment and Professional Development Three Smaller Studies of Instructional Alignment What Districts Can Do 3. Alignment and Textbooks Introduction Textbook to Test Alignment Summary of Findings for Studies of Textbook to Test Alignment Quality of Textbook Instruction Modifying the Use of Textbooks to Improve Alignment Summary of Findings for Textbook Alignment What Districts Can Do 4. Alignment and Standardized Tests Introduction Marzanös Standards Compilation The Webb Studies:Aligning State Standards, Assessments, and Policies Webb
s WAT Web Site The Browder Study: Alignment in Special Education Vertical Alignment Science Inquiry and Alignment to Three Large-Scale Assessments The Bowe and Kingsbury Study The National Center for Educational Statistics Study (2007): Cut Scores for State Tests and the NAEP Backloanding the Curriculum Summary of Findings for Studies of Alignment of State Tests What Districts Can Do Part II. Alignment and Mastery Learning, Project 2061, and TIMSS 5. Alignment, Reteaching, and Mastery Learning A Personal Ntoe Introduction Bloom
s Theory of School Learning Cohen: Instructional Alignment The Wishnick Study Summary of Findings for Studies of Mastery Learning What Districts Can Do 6. Ideas From Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Introduction Project 2061 Summary of Findings for Project 2061 What Districts Can Do 7. Alignment and the TIMSS Analysis Introduction The TIMSS Methodology Curriculum and Student Acheivement What Districts Can Do Part III. The Aligned Curriculum 8. Criteria for a Useful and Useable Curriculum Incorporating Alignment Introduction The Many Meaning of Curriculum The Common Definition of Curriculum Our Definition of Curriculum Criteria for a Useful and Useable Curriculum 9. Addressing Alignment Through a Curriculum Design: The Balanced Curriculum Model Introduction Results from School Districts The Balanced Curriculum Model Is the Balanced Curriculum Useful and Useable? What Districts Can Do- A Conclusion 10. How the Balanced Curriculum Meets This Book
s Recommendations for Districts 11. Summary of Alignment Research and Recommendations Introduction Summary of the Book Summary of the Book
s Chapters The Reasearch Posted on the Alignment Matrix Major Findings From the Alignment Research Resource A: 10 Criteria for Structuring a Useful and Useable Curriculum References Index