Identifying and Selecting Curriculum Materials

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Identifying and Selecting Curriculum Materials

• Chapter 9

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Types of Curriculum Materials

• Printed Material
• teacher manuals
• student manuals
• textbooks
• workbooks
• modules
• study guides

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Types of Curriculum Materials

• Audiovisual Materials
• videotapes
• transparencies
• computer software
• Internet sites
• posters
• graphics

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Types of Curriculum Materials

• Manipulative Aids-
• must be physically handled
• experiments
• games
• models
• specimens
• puzzles

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Need for Securing Curriculum Materials

• Wise use of all resources
• Lack of time to make all materials from scratch
• Costs- may be cheaper to buy
• Quality Control- Most curriculum materials have
  been field tested and revised.

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Selecting Curriculum Materials

• Must be carried out in a planned logical sequence
• See a sample Materials Assessment Form in
  Appendix A of the text

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Curriculum Materials Assessment Form-Appendix
A-p.302

• Section I- General Information.
• This information will be important in filing and
  referring to the material at a later date for
  ordering and etc.

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Curriculum Materials Assessment Form

• Section II- Assessment Areas
• Is the material bias?
• sex-role stereotyping (Figure 9-1 Sex bias
  awareness guide p.212.)
• ethnic, race or age bias
• job denigration -to belittle or defame

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ECO- Sex Bias

• Pratt (1980) created a procedure called ECO
  (evaluation coefficient analysis).
• Identify the subject to be studied
• List all value terms (positive or negative) about
  the subject
• Multiply the number of positive terms by 100 and
  divide by the combined total number of positive
  and negative terms

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ECO

• 0.0-50.0 represents material containing
  unfavorable content
• 50.0-100 indicates material with favorable content

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Curriculum Materials Assessment Form

• Section II- Assessment Areas
• Is the material at the correct reading level
  (readability?)

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Readability

• Procedures to determine readability
• Flesch formula
• Cloze Procedure
• Forecast formula

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Flesch Formula

• You can go to a web site cut and paste text and
  it does the work for you
• Or you can go to Fleschs website and use his
  formula for yourself

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Sample Flesch Formula Analysis Results

• Flesch Formula Analysis
• Text Statistics
• Number of Sentences 136Number of Words
  1678Number of Syllables 2443
• Analysis Results
• Flesch Score 71Reading Age 12 yearsText
  Difficulty Fairly Easy
• Analysis Successful

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Cloze Procedure- requires student testing

• Select sample paragraphs
• Retype the first and last sentence as it appears.
  For the second and succeeding sentences omit
  every fifth word until there are 50 blanks.
• Have students read, reread and fill in the
  blanks.
• Score their responses- the words they provide
  must match exactly

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Cloze Procedure

• 23 or more correct responses- independent reading
  level
• 19-22 correct responses- instructional level-
  instructor assistance is needed
• Fewer than 19 correct responses- students are
  frustrated, material is too difficult to
  understand even with instructor assistance

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Forecast Formula

• Select a 150 word passage
• Count the number of one-syllable words
• Use the following formula to determine reading
  grade-level (RGL)
• 20 - Number of one-syllable words RGL
• 10

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Curriculum Materials Assessment Form

• Section II- Assessment Areas
• Content- accuracy, up to date, appropriate?
• Presentation- easy to use, appeal?

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Curriculum Materials Assessment Form

• Section II- Assessment Areas
• Learning
• Principle of Association- does it build on
  previous knowledge
• Principle of Practice- is student asked to apply
  the content
• Principle of Effect- are the materials appealing
• Principle of Readiness- does the material prepare
  the student for what follows

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Curriculum Assessment

• Section II- Assessment Areas
• Support- other needed resources?
• Cost Benefit- is it reasonable?

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Curriculum Assessment

• Section III-
• Strengths and Limitations
• Section IV-
• Assessment Summary

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Software Assessment
Appendix B- p.308

• Basic Technical Aspects
• Continuing Technical Aspects
• Interface- user friendly
• Try-Out- efficiency of use

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Touchstones for Textbook Selection Inventory

• p. 217
• Warming and Baber (1980)