How Well Aligned Are Textbooks to the Common Core Standards in Mathematics?

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Title: How Well Aligned Are Textbooks to the Common Core Standards in Mathematics?
Abstract/Description: Research has identified a number of problems limiting the implementation of content standards in the classroom. Curriculum materials may be among the most important influences on teachers’ instruction. As new standards roll out, there is skepticism about the alignment of “Common Core–aligned” curriculum materials to the standards. This analysis is the first to investigate claims of alignment in the context of fourth-grade mathematics using the only widely used alignment tool capable of estimating the alignment of curriculum materials with the standards. The results indicate substantial areas of misalignment; in particular, the textbooks studied systematically overemphasize procedures and memorization relative to the standards, among other weaknesses. The findings challenge publishers’ alignment claims and motivate further research on curriculum alignment.
Author/creator: Polikoff, Morgan S.
Date: 2015
In publication: American Educational Research Journal
Volume: 52
Issue: 6
Pages: 1185-1211
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
Language: en
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 0002-8312
DOI: 10.3102/0002831215584435
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals); Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
Citation: Polikoff, M. S. (2015). How Well Aligned Are Textbooks to the Common Core Standards in Mathematics? American Educational Research Journal, 52(6), 1185–1211. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831215584435
Cited in: Coherent Instructional Systems at the School and School System Levels in the United States

Item sets: OB Citations - Coherent Instructional Systems at the School and School System Levels in the United States

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