Middle School Science Text

Adoption Process

Preparing to Pilot February ‘07 - teacher committee narrows

state-approved 7/8 science texts to two top choices:

Prentice Hall and Holt

Preparing to Pilot February ‘07 - teacher committee narrows

state-approved 7/8 science texts to two top choices:

Prentice Hall and Holt

March ‘07 - science pilot team attends training from publishers.

Piloting Process Teachers pilot for two quarters.

Each teacher communicates on a regular basis with a partner who pilots the other publisher.

All piloting teachers come together periodically, calibrate their numbers, and hand in individual scores.

Piloting Timeline

7/16/07 - Rubric and data sheet training

9/20/07 - “What Students Do”

11/1/07 - “What Teachers Do”

12/13/07 - “Content”

1/10/08 - “Assessment” and final decision

Side-by-side Standards Sampling

A standards sampling was performed.

Side-by-side Standards Sampling A standards sampling was performed.

Summative questions were identified that less than 25% of students answered correctly.

Side-by-side Standards Sampling A standards sampling was performed.

Summative questions were identified that less than 25% of students answered correctly.

The questions were correlated to the standards they address.

7th - 1e - process of mitosis (15%) 8th - 3a - structure of the atom (22%)

Side-by-side Standards Sampling A rubric and scoring sheet was developed using input

from both the Science adoption Toolkit and Math Adoption Toolkit.

The texts from the two publishers were evaluated comparatively in a side-by-side manner.

Content and assessment were the two categories evaluated.

Final Scores from Pilot Process Average of Pilot Scores

Holt Prentice Hall

Students Do 13 17.6

Teachers Do 14 17.5

Content 22.4 24

Assessment 19.8 18.3

Subtotal 69.2 77.4

Overall Scores From Standards Sampling

Prentice Hall 96

Holt 89