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Project
2061 Middle and High School Science Textbooks A Standards-Based Evaluation |
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- Engaging
Students with Relevant Phenomena
- Providing variety of phenomena
- Providing vivid experiences
Does the material provide multiple and varied phenomena to support the key ideas?
Indicators of meeting the criterion
- Phenomena are useful in making the key ideas real.
- Phenomena are explicitly linked to the relevant key ideas. [6],[7]
Rating Scheme
Excellent: The
material provides a sufficient number and variety of phenomena
that meet indicators 1 and 2.
Satisfactory: The
material provides some phenomena that meet indicators 1 and 2.
Poor: The
material provides, at best, one phenomenon that meets indicators
1 and 2.
If the benchmark for which the material is analyzed includes several ideas, the reviewers should proceed as follows:
- Identify the ideas for which there is a content match.
- Score the treatment of each idea that results from step a. The overall score for this criterion will be the average of the scores for each idea.