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Project
2061 Middle and High School Science Textbooks A Standards-Based Evaluation |
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- Taking
Account of Student Ideas
- Attending to prerequisite knowledge and skills
- Alerting teacher to commonly held student ideas
- Assisting teacher in identifying own students' ideas
- Addressing commonly held ideas
Does the material specify prerequisite knowledge/skills that are necessary to the learning of the key idea(s)?
Indicators of meeting the criterion
- The material alerts the teacher to specific prerequisite ideas or skills (versus stating only prerequisite topics or terms).
- The material alerts teachers to the specific ideas for which the prerequisites are needed.
- The material alerts students to prerequisite ideas or experiences that are being assumed.
- The material adequately addresses (provides instructional support for) prerequisites in the same unit or in earlier units (in the same or other grades). (The material should not be held accountable for addressing prerequisites from an earlier grade range. However, if a material does address such prerequisites they should count as evidence for this indicator.)
- The material makes adequate connections (provides instructional support for connections) between ideas treated in a particular unit and their prerequisites (even if the prerequisites are addressed elsewhere).
Rating Scheme
Excellent: The material meets indicators 1, 2, 3 or 4, and 5 for all or
most prerequisites.
Satisfactory: The material meets indicators
1, 2, 5, and either 3 or 4 for some prerequisites.
Fair: The material meets indicators 5 and
either 3 or 4 for some prerequisites.
Poor: The material meets no more than one
indicator.