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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480363603321

Autore

Squires David A.

Titolo

Aligning and balancing the standards-based curriculum / / David A. Squires ; foreword by Fenwick W. English ; cover designer, Anthony Paular

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-4833-6059-8

1-4833-6278-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

375.001

Soggetti

Curriculum planning - United States

Education - Standards - United States

Competency-based education - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents   ""; ""Foreword""; "" Preface""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Balanced Curriculum Web Site""; ""Introduction""; ""Section I  - Curriculum Tools and Concepts: Textbooks, Standards, Alignment, and Standardized Testing""; ""Chapter 1 -  Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Standards""; ""Curriculum: What it is and What it is  Not""; ""Teacher Autonomy and the Role of Curriculum""; ""Why is Curriculum Important?""; ""Districtsâ€? Responses to Standards and High-Stakes Tests""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 2 -  Textbooks: What the Research Says""

""A Brief History of Textbooks""""The Process of Publishing Textbooks""; ""TIMSS and NAEP Provide a Context for Understanding Textbooksâ€? Role""; ""Content of What Teachers Teach""; ""TIMSS of Textbooks""; ""Mathematics and Science Textbooks""; ""Whatâ€?s Wrong with Todayâ€?s Math and Science Texts?""; ""Social Studies Textbooks""; ""English and Language Arts Textbooks""; ""Basal Readers and the Balanced Curriculum""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3 -  Understanding and Using National, State, and Local Frameworks and Standards""; ""Definition of



Standards""

""A Brief History of the Standards Movement""""The Logic behind the Standards Movement""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4 -  The Importance of Aligning Curriculum""; ""The Alignment Problem: Many Standards, Limited Instruction""; ""The History of Alignment""; ""School Districtsâ€? Attempts at Alignment""; ""Textbooks Aligned to Standards and Tests""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5 -  The Conundrum of Standardized Testing""; ""Summary of the History and Purpose of Standardized Testing""; ""Making Inferences""; ""Defining the Domain of Whatâ€?s Tested""; ""Sampling the Universe of Items in the Domain""

""Sampling Decisions Must be Secret for Inferences about Test Results to be Valid""""Limited Testing and a Large Number of Standards""; ""Score Spread of Individual Items""; ""Tests Serve Multiple Missions""; ""Testing Narrows the Curriculum""; ""Lack Specifics about What is  Tested Increases Curriculum Coverage""; ""Reporting Test Results""; ""One Score Used as the Only Source of Information for High-Stakes Decisions""; ""What to Do""; ""Summary""; ""Section II - The Design of the Balanced Curriculum""; ""Chapter 6 -  Curriculum Structure and Criteria for a Useful and Useable Curriculum""

""Curriculum Defined""""Some Options for Curriculum Structure""; ""Usefulness and Usability as Indicators of Curriculum Quality""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 7 -  The Balanced Curriculum Process""; ""Describe the Curriculum""; ""Align and Balance the Curriculum""; ""Assess the Curriculum""; ""Manage the Curriculum""; ""Provide Staff Development for the Curriculum""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 8 -  Setting up the Curriculum Writing Process""; ""The Planning Team, Superintendent, and Point Person""; ""The Superintendent""; ""Recruitment of Curriculum Authors""; ""The Role of Principals""

""Various Models for the Curriculum Writing Process""

Sommario/riassunto

Full of field-tested implementation tools, this comprehensive handbook shows how schools and districts can use the Balanced Curriculum process to put their schools on the track to success. <br />