Holt, Rinehart, Winston Geometry Text and Supplemental Material Evaluation at Quincy Senior High School

1. Holt, Rinehart, & Winston GeometryText and Supplemental Material Evaluationat Quincy Senior High School Presented byEvelyn MorrisonEdPsy 474 Fall 2004CTER7

2. Description of Program QHS started using the HRW text in the fall of 2002 Used in all Geometry classes as of fall 2004 Teachers met to select text and again to determine curricula Goal of attained curriculum imbedded within intended and implemented curricula

3. HRW Text Selection Criteria Interactive student activities for most lessons Abundant teacher resources Lesson plans and resources on CD-ROM Alignment with district, state, and national math standards

4. Evaluation Questions How does the geometry class compare to students� expectations of geometry prior to taking the class? How do students feel about the class activities and do the activities help the learning process? Does the new text and supplemental material help the teachers plan for their class? Which parts of the supplemental materials do they use and why? Why don�t they use other parts of the materials? Do they use the CD planner, the PowerPoint slides, or the test generator? Do teachers use the Geometer�s Sketchpad interface and if so, how often? If not, why don�t they use the Geometer�s Sketchpad interface? How well does the geometry text meet the NCTM 9-12 geometry standards?

5. Instruments & Participants Student Surveys Teacher Surveys

6. Student Surveys Participation requested by not required of 87 geometry students in 3 classes Response rate: nearly 90% or 78 students completed surveys during geometry class Quantitative questions of course expectations and class activities Qualitative questions for more details of above

7. Teacher Surveys Participation requested of 8 teachers who taught or currently teach HRW Geometry Response rate: 37.5% or only 3 teachers returned the completed survey Quantitative questions on taught chapters and use of supplemental materials Additional comments section

8. Data Analysis Paper surveys were conducted in class Quantitative responses were coded into MS Excel MS Excel charts used to display data results Qualitative responses summarized

9. Student Results - Expectations Difficult to measure pre-course expectations this far into the semester Students recorded their class expectations but many of the things we have done in class were noted as expected Student comments indicated the class is as expected for most students Many students noted that geometry is difficult but they expected the class to be more difficult

10. ExpectationsOver 78% Responses

11. Expectations 70% - 76% Responses

12. Expectations 64% - 69% Responses

13. Expectations 28% - 56% Responses

14. Expectations Less Than 11% Responses

15. Student Results � Class Activities Overall the activities seem to be a success Over 90% like the activities Over 80% feel that the activities provide useful notes and help with homework Just over 50% can find answers to the activities in the book The activities require the students to do the activity to answer the questions rather than find answers in the book

16. I like the class activities.91% Agree or Strongly Agree

17. The class activities are easy to understand.78% Agree or Strongly Agree

18. The book provides enough assistance with the class activities.56% Agree or Strongly Agree

19. I can find answers to the class activity questions in the book.58% Agree or Strongly Agree

20. There is enough time in class to complete the class activities.82% Agree or Strongly Agree

21. I always complete the class activities.75% Agree or Strongly Agree

22. The class activities provide me with useful notes.83% Agree or Strongly Agree

23. The class activities help me understand the homework.84% Agree or Strongly Agree

24. Teacher ResultsTaught Curriculum Difficult to assess with low response rate Teachers seem to be consistent with what is covered during the year Teach all of chapters 1-7 with very few exclusions Teach parts of chapters 8 & 10

25. Teacher ResultsSupplemental Materials Very useful materials: book problems Useful: worksheets AB&C, lesson openers, quiz worksheets, test worksheets, dynamic test generator Somewhat useful: class activities, warm-ups, daily quizzes, practice worksheets, CD planner Not very useful or do not use: writing resources, long term projects, PowerPoint slides, lesson plans, absent student resources, Geometer�s Sketchpad

26. Teacher ResultsReasons Materials Not Used PowerPoint slides are not used because it is too difficult to schedule lab time Geometer�s Sketchpad is not used because it is too difficult to schedule lab time and because there is not enough class time to complete the activities

27. Recommendations Use more class activities. Students like activities and find them useful for notes and homework Teachers only find activities somewhat useful and sometimes difficult to administer Mix book assignments with worksheets Students do not like the heavy book Train new teachers on dynamic test generator and Geometer�s sketchpad New teacher does not use test generator Keep communication open between teachers School reorganization moved math teachers to separate hallways