GATEways
to Teacher Education
A journal of the Georgia Association of Teacher Educators
VOLUME 14, ISSUE 1
PAGE 36
Similar to the CRT results, the
implementation of the Singapore Math
curriculum did not negatively affect the ITBS
achievement scores.
Table 3 reveals the
elevating ITBS mean percentile ranking in
mathematics for grades 2-5 from 2006-2009:
Table 3
ITBA Percentile Ranking, 2006-2009
Relating the positive CRT and ITBS
student achievement results to O’Donnell’s
curriculum-in-use
construct suggests the
implementation of the new curriculum may have
contributed to an increase in standardized test
results. Determining the
measures that may have
contributed to these academic results as well as
confounding factors implementing the new
curriculum identified
through surveys, journals,
interviews, and observation data provide deeper
insights into teachers’ perceptions and
practices
delivering the new mathematics curriculum.
Findings
A strong claim can be made that the
Singapore Math curriculum positively impacts
student learning after the first and second year as
revealed in the CRT and ITBS tests results. This
finding begins to answer the
second research
question related to student learning of
mathematics but does not, however,
provide a
more nuanced understanding into the research
question concerning teachers’ confidence,
practices, and perceptions implementing the new
mathematics curriculum. O’Donnell’s (2008)
framework offers a
more meaningful analysis of
the teachers’ successes and struggles delivering
the new mathematics program by providing
multiple constructs for evaluating the
effective
implementation of a new curriculum. Taken
together, applying O’Donnell’s four constructs to
the collected data in Table 4, reveals a
curriculum
that was implemented with moderately strong
fidelity between 2008 and 2010:
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