Curriculum alignment : research-based strategies for increasing student achievement / David A. Squires.
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Corwin Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Alignment and Instruction, Textbooks, and Standardized Tests
- 1. Introduction to Curriculum Alignment
- What Is Alignment?
- Alignment Problems: Too Many Standards, Too Little Time
- The Alignment Matrix
- 2. Alignment and Instruction
- The Reform Up Close Study and Alignment's Dimensions
- Instructional Alignment and Professional Development
- Three Smaller Studies of Instructional Alignment
- What Districts Can Do
- 3. Alignment and Textbooks
- 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
- Marzano's Standards Compilation and the Web Site for Achieve, Inc.
- 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
- English and Steffy: Backloading 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
- 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
- AAAS Project 2061
- Summary of Findings for Project 2061
- What Districts Can Do
- 7. Curriculum Makes a Difference-Alignment and the TIMSS Analysis
- The TIMSS Methodology
- Findings-Curriculum and Student Achievement
- What Districts Can Do
- Part III. The Aligned Curriculum
- 8. Criteria for a Useful and Usable Curriculum Incorporating Alignment
- The Many Meanings of Curriculum
- The Common Definition of Curriculum
- Our Definition of Curriculum
- Criteria for a Useful and Usable Curriculum
- 9. Addressing Alignment Through a Curriculum Design: The Balanced Curriculum Model
- Results From School Districts
- The Balanced Curriculum Model
- Is the Balanced Curriculum Useful and Usable?
- What Districts Can Do-A Conclusion
- 10. How the Balanced Curriculum Meets This Book's Recommendations for Districts
- Summary of Recommendations
- 11. Summary of Alignment Research and Recommendations
- Summary of the Book
- Summary of the Book's Chapters
- The Research Posted on the Alignment Matrix
- Major Findings From the Alignment Research
- Resource: Ten Criteria for Structuring a Useful and Usable Curriculum.
