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

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