Analysis Of The Consistency Between The Main New Geography Textbooks And Curriculum Standards In Senior Middle School

The curriculum standards is not merely the foundation of textbook writing,teaching,assessing and examination proposition,but also the base of national management and evaluation of course.This article intends to draw lessons by SEC consistency analysis model which stem from US,mainly using the quantitative analysis,adopts content analysis method,literature method and statistical analysis and other methods.It analyses the alignment among the three version textbooks(compulsory 1)and the geography curriculum standards from the aspect of statistics,and the consistency and the transverse comparison of three versions of textbooks.The article can be Summarized Into two steps:(1)to structure a two-dimensional matrix for analyzing the three versions of textbooks and the curriculum content standard;(2)analysis the characteristics of alignment among textbooks and the curriculum standards based on overall and partial level,and conduct the horizontal comparison between the textbooks.The following conclusions are concluded:(1)By comparing the alignment index,we can know that the relation among three versions textbooks are "PEP">"SMP">" Hunan".The outcomes shows there is no statistically significant consistency among three version of textbooks and the geography curriculum standards.(2)From the aspect of content topic,By calculating the sum of D-value' absolute value to compare the degree of consistency,the degree of the alignment among each version of the textbooks and curriculum standards from high low are " PEP">"Hunan">"SMP".(3)From the cognitive skill dimension,the degree of the alignment among each version of the textbook and the curriculum standards from high low are "PEP">"SMP">"Hunan".The curriculum standards has especially requirement on level"understanding",the common point of the researched objects is to focus on the"understanding".(4)From the surface diagram analysis,the figure of "PEP" which has very obvious and quietly concentrated focus is most similar to the curriculum standards',the figure of"SMP" and "Hunan" are similar,both of them have no obvious focus.In conclusion,the three former content topics to be the focus in all researched objects and concentrates on level of "knowing" and "understanding".