ERIC Number: EJ1120976
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Publication Date: 2016-Dec
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Curriculum Enactment Patterns and Associated Factors from Teachers' Perspectives
Son, Ji-Won; Kim, Ok-Kyeong
Mathematics Education Research Journal, v28 n4 p585-614 Dec 2016
As part of a larger effort to improve teacher capacity for high-quality mathematics instruction, we investigated the factors that are associated with different enactment patterns at three levels: contextual (e.g., type and quality of textbook), individual (e.g., teacher knowledge), and teachers' opportunity-to-learn (e.g., professional development experiences). Analysis of 183 teachers' self-reports on their practices revealed three notable findings. First, the factors at the three levels were all found to be significantly related to the different patterns of enacted curriculum. However, the use of quality textbooks and the alignment of teachers' views and instructional goals with curriculum goals were found to be the two factors that are most strongly associated with the enactment pattern of high-level problems and high-level teacher questions in instruction. Furthermore, teachers with the enactment pattern of increasing lower cognitive demand of problems into higher ones tended to rate their curriculum knowledge higher than teachers with the enactment pattern of using low-level problems and teacher questions in their teaching. In particular, deviation from and dissatisfaction with their assigned low-quality textbooks were found to be critical factors that are associated with the enactment pattern of increasing lower cognitive demands of problems in instruction.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Improvement, Educational Quality, Educational Practices, Textbooks, Knowledge Level, Faculty Development, Curriculum Implementation, Alignment (Education), Teacher Attitudes, Educational Objectives, Satisfaction, Mathematics Curriculum, Difficulty Level
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