Using Content Maps for Curriculum Materials

&Curriculum Management

John L. Smithson

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research AssociationApril 2004, San Diego, CA

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Alignment of FOSS Curriculum to FOSS Assessments

Grades 1-2

Grades 3-4

Grades 5-6

Grades 1-2 Grades 3-4 Grades 5-6Curriculum

Tests

0.228 0.141 0.163 0.229 0.174

0.250 0.170 0.195 0.251 0.238

0.251 0.227 0.263 0.267 0.272

0.245 0.164 0.199 0.212 0.225

0.159 0.110 0.133 0.172 0.171

Alignment of FOSS Curriculum to State Standards

State DGrades 3-5

State D Grades 6-8

State R Grades 3-5

State R Grades 6-8

State O Grade 4 Test

FOSS Inv.All Grades

FOSS Grades 1-2

FOSS Grades 3-4

FOSS Grades 5-6

FOSSAll Tests

ScienceStandards

Over time, interest in the use of these tools has grown and moved:

From Researchers (large scale measures of classroom practice)

To State Assessment Directors (how do assessments relate to OTL & standards)

To State Curriculum Directors (how does instruction relate to standards)

To District and School Administrators (how do we bring instruction into greater alignment with standards)

And we are now beginning to see potentially powerful uses of these descriptive tools by

Curriculum Resource Staff and Teachers themselves.