Holt, Rinehart,

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Holt, Rinehart, Winston GeometryText and
Supplemental Material Evaluationat Quincy Senior
High School

• Presented byEvelyn MorrisonEdPsy 474 Fall
  2004CTER7

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Description of Program

• QHS started using the HRW text in the fall of
  2002
• Used in all Geometry classes as of fall 2004
• Teachers met to select text and again to
  determine curricula
• Goal of attained curriculum imbedded within
  intended and implemented curricula

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HRW Text Selection Criteria

• Interactive student activities for most lessons
• Abundant teacher resources
• Lesson plans and resources on CD-ROM
• Alignment with district, state, and national math
  standards

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Evaluation Questions

• How does the geometry class compare to students
  expectations of geometry prior to taking the
  class?
• How do students feel about the class activities
  and do the activities help the learning process?
• Does the new text and supplemental material help
  the teachers plan for their class? Which parts
  of the supplemental materials do they use and
  why? Why dont they use other parts of the
  materials? Do they use the CD planner, the
  PowerPoint slides, or the test generator?
• Do teachers use the Geometers Sketchpad
  interface and if so, how often? If not, why
  dont they use the Geometers Sketchpad
  interface?
• How well does the geometry text meet the NCTM
  9-12 geometry standards?

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Instruments Participants

• Student Surveys
• Teacher Surveys

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Student Surveys

• Participation requested by not required of 87
  geometry students in 3 classes
• Response rate nearly 90 or 78 students
  completed surveys during geometry class
• Quantitative questions of course expectations and
  class activities
• Qualitative questions for more details of above

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Teacher Surveys

• Participation requested of 8 teachers who taught
  or currently teach HRW Geometry
• Response rate 37.5 or only 3 teachers returned
  the completed survey
• Quantitative questions on taught chapters and use
  of supplemental materials
• Additional comments section

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Data Analysis

• Paper surveys were conducted in class
• Quantitative responses were coded into MS Excel
• MS Excel charts used to display data results
• Qualitative responses summarized

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Student Results - Expectations

• Difficult to measure pre-course expectations this
  far into the semester
• Students recorded their class expectations but
  many of the things we have done in class were
  noted as expected
• Student comments indicated the class is as
  expected for most students
• Many students noted that geometry is difficult
  but they expected the class to be more difficult

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ExpectationsOver 78 Responses
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Expectations 70 - 76 Responses
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Expectations 64 - 69 Responses
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Expectations 28 - 56 Responses
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Expectations Less Than 11 Responses
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Student Results Class Activities

• Overall the activities seem to be a success
• Over 90 like the activities
• Over 80 feel that the activities provide useful
  notes and help with homework
• Just over 50 can find answers to the activities
  in the book
• The activities require the students to do the
  activity to answer the questions rather than find
  answers in the book

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I like the class activities.91 Agree or
Strongly Agree
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The class activities are easy to understand.78
Agree or Strongly Agree
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The book provides enough assistance with the
class activities.56 Agree or Strongly Agree
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I can find answers to the class activity
questions in the book.58 Agree or Strongly Agree
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There is enough time in class to complete the
class activities.82 Agree or Strongly Agree
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I always complete the class activities.75 Agree
or Strongly Agree
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The class activities provide me with useful
notes.83 Agree or Strongly Agree
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The class activities help me understand the
homework.84 Agree or Strongly Agree
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Teacher ResultsTaught Curriculum

• Difficult to assess with low response rate
• Teachers seem to be consistent with what is
  covered during the year
• Teach all of chapters 1-7 with very few
  exclusions
• Teach parts of chapters 8 10

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Teacher ResultsSupplemental Materials

• Very useful materials book problems
• Useful worksheets ABC, lesson openers, quiz
  worksheets, test worksheets, dynamic test
  generator
• Somewhat useful class activities, warm-ups,
  daily quizzes, practice worksheets, CD planner
• Not very useful or do not use writing resources,
  long term projects, PowerPoint slides, lesson
  plans, absent student resources, Geometers
  Sketchpad

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Teacher ResultsReasons Materials Not Used

• PowerPoint slides are not used because it is too
  difficult to schedule lab time
• Geometers Sketchpad is not used because it is
  too difficult to schedule lab time and because
  there is not enough class time to complete the
  activities

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Recommendations

• Use more class activities.
• Students like activities and find them useful for
  notes and homework
• Teachers only find activities somewhat useful and
  sometimes difficult to administer
• Mix book assignments with worksheets
• Students do not like the heavy book
• Train new teachers on dynamic test generator and
  Geometers sketchpad
• New teacher does not use test generator
• Keep communication open between teachers
• School reorganization moved math teachers to
  separate hallways