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IMPACT OF HIGH SCHOOL
MATHEMATICS CURRICULA ON THEMATHEMATICS TAKS EXIT-LEVELPERFORMANCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
STUDENTS
Presented By
Clarence Johnson
September, 2007
Dissertation Proposal Defense
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Committee MembersWilliam A. Kritsonis, Ph.D.
(Dissertation Chair)
Douglas Hermond, Ph.D.(Member)
David Herrington, Ph.D.(Member)
Pamela Barber-Freeman, Ph.D.(Member)
Veda Brown, Ph.D.(Outside Member)
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Proposal Defense OutlineI. The Problem
II.
Purpose of StudyIII. Research Questions
IV. Hypotheses
V. Importance of Study VI. Review of Literature
VII. Research Design
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The Problem In the United States, remedial mathematics
classrooms contain large number of African
American students; however, advancedmathematics classes mainly served Whitestudents (Snipes & Waters, 2005).
Luebienski (2001) reported that, in both 1990
and 1996, White students in the lowest socioeconomic subgroup scored equal to orhigher than African American students in thehighest socioeconomic subgroup.
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The Problem
In a summary of four national surveys
reported between 1969 and 1987, Horn(1990) found that Asians earned twice thenumber of mathematics and science creditsthan did Whites, and Whites earned twice
the number of credits for those subjectsthan did African Americans or Hispanics.
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The Problem Forty-three percent of African American
high school students failed the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS)Exit-Level Mathematics Test in 2005.Current documentation indicates the failure
rate is higher among African Americanstudents than any other ethnic groups (TEA
Accountability System State Data Table,
2005).
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New Jersey Mathematics
Curriculum Framework
HighExpectations inMathematics
for All Students
The
Significanceof
MathematicsCore
CurriculumContent
Standards
IdentifyingEquity
Concerns inDistricts and
Schools
Challenging All Studentsto Maximize
Their
Achievement
OvercomingBarriers to
Equity
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New Jersey Mathematics
Curriculum Framework
Investigate CoreCurriculum Content
Standards
InvestigateHigh
Expectations in
Mathematics forAll Students
Identify 6 HighSchools
MathematicsTAKS Exit-Level
Passing andFailure Rates of
African AmericanStudents
Survey 27Counselors for
MathematicsPlacement of 8th
and 9th GradesAfrican
AmericanStudents
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Purpose of the Study Investigate the relationship of high
school mathematics curricula on themathematics TAKS Exit-Levelperformance of African Americanstudents using the New JerseyMathematics Curriculum Framework.
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Purpose of the Study Investigate high expectations in
mathematics for all students using theNew Jersey Mathematics CurriculumFramework.
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Research Questions
Quantitative
1. What is the impact of the decision of African American students to enroll in trackone or track two in the eighth and ninthgrades mathematics and the pass/failstatus on the eleventh grade Texas
Assessment of Knowledge and Skills(TAKS) Exit-Level Mathematics Test?
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Research Questions
Quantitative
2. What is the impact of African Americaneighth and ninth grade mathematicsstudents pass/fail status on the eleventhgrade Texas Assessment of Knowledge
and Skills (TAKS) Exit-Level MathematicsTest among six high school campuseswithin a large urban school district?
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Research Questions
Quantitative
3. What is the impact of African Americaneighth and ninth grade students enrolledin track 1 or track 2 mathematics andadvancing in mathematics learning by
entering in chemistry, physics, pre-calculus, AP Physics, or AP Calculus in theeleventh and twelfth grades?
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Research QuestionsQuantitative
4. What factors do counselors identify asinfluential on African American studentsplacement in track 1 or track 2 in eighthand ninth grades mathematics?
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Hypotheses
Ho1 There is no statistically significant
relationship between the decision to enrollin track 1 or track 2 in the eighth and ninthgrades mathematics and pass/fail status of
African American students on the eleventhgrade Texas Assessment of Knowledgeand Skills (TAKS) Exit-Level MathematicsTest.
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Hypotheses
Ho2 There is no statistically significant
relationship between African Americaneighth and ninth grades mathematicsstudents pass/fail status on the eleventhgrade Texas Assessment of Knowledge and
Skills (TAKS) Exit-Level Mathematics Test among six high school campuses within alarge urban school district .
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Hypotheses
Ho3 There is no statistically significant
relationship between the African Americaneighth and ninth grade students enrolled intrack 1 or track 2 mathematics andadvancing in mathematics learning by
entering in chemistry, physics, pre-calculus, AP Physics, or AP Calculus in the eleventhand twelfth grades.
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Importance of Study
Results of the study could provide a
learning foundation for educationalleadership in areas where the increasedsuccess of African American students on
the mathematics exit-level tests has beenidentified.
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Review of LiteratureNo Child Left Behind
On January 8, 2002, President Bushsigned the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) into law to begin educational
reform designed to improve student achievement and change Americanschool culture (Jones & Hancock, 2005).
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Review of Literature
Eighth-Grade Mathematics as the Gate-keeper to Advanced Mathematics Learning
In 1996, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (N AEP) revealed that for Grade 4, 8, and 12, less than one thirdof U.S. students were proficient or above inmathematics and science (Glenn, 2000).
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Review of Literature African American Students in AdvancedMathematics Courses
Unfortunately, African American studentsin education today often experience alow-level, watered-down curriculum,
negative perceptions about their ability,and low expectations regarding theirachievement (Russell, 2005).
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Review of LiteratureMiddle School Course Selection Patterns
In their analysis of American students achievement in the Third InternationalMathematics and Science Study, WilliamSchmidt and his colleagues (1999) noticed
how tracking creates differences instudents opportunities to studymathematics and how reducedopportunities result in lower achievement.
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Review of Literature
Disparities in Mathematics Achievement andInstruction
National Assessment of Educational Progress(N AEP) data suggest that most African Americanstudents are not experiencing instructional
practices consistent with the recommendationssuggested by the National Council of Teachersof Mathematics (NCTM), whereas more whitestudents are experiencing NCTM standards-based instruction (Lubienski, 2001).
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Review of LiteratureMinority Gap in Mathematics
According to a 2004 report from the California
Teacher Association (CTA), the wideningachievement gap in Californias public schoolsraises many questions about educational equality.
The report further indicated that in 1990, therewas a 33 point gap between the scores of Blackand White students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NEAP) mathematics test at the eighth grade level as compared to 2000scores, the gap had grown to a 39 point gap.
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Review of LiteratureImpact of the Mathematics Curricula on theSuccess of African American Students
As Warren Simmons of the CaseyFoundation observed, the nation entered the1990s with twin goals for education reform.
One of the goals was to create curricula andinstructional approaches that would help allstudents attain world-class levels of achievement (Futrell & Brown, 2000).
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Research Design The research design for this study is in two
phases. Phase one is a correlational studybased on post hoc data. The Pearsons r
statistic will be used to determine whethervarious factors are related to academicsuccess in mathematics as measured bythe Texas Assessment of Knowledge and
Skills Exit-Level Mathematics Test. Phasetwo is a survey of 27 counselors todetermine factors for mathematicsplacement of African American students inthe eighth and ninth grade. These data willbe reported as descriptive data.
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Subjects of the Study Participants for the study will include 262 African American eleventh grade studentsand 27 eighth grade counselors. Thestudents will be identified from thepopulation of 827 eleventh grade students
enrolled in mathematics courses in sixhigh schools in a large urban schooldistrict.
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Simple Random Sampling The targeted population of 827 African American eleventh grade students enrolled
in the eleventh grade in 2006-2007 will beinvolved in the random sample.
Krejcie and Morgan in 1970 generated a
model of appropriate sample size (Barlett,Kotrick, & Higgins, 2001).
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Instruments In the study the dependent variables, exit-level tests
achievement, will be measured by the mathematicsportion of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills(TAKS) Exit-Level Mathematics Test scores. Texas
Assessment of Knowledge and Skill (TAKS) Exit-LevelMathematics Test has been found valid and reliable inthe Texas Education Agency. The Texas Assessment of
Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) Exit-Level Test is also acriterion-referenced test, and was found to be reliableand valid for measuring the achievement in themathematics courses as outlined by the Texas EssentialKnowledge and Skills curriculum.
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Instruments A survey containing 15 questions will be
given to 27 eighth grade counselors. The
15 questions on the counselors survey willbe field tested. The dependent variables,documentation of the counselors survey
will be reported as descriptive data.
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Data CollectionQuantitative A letter from the superintendent of schools will be
requested for an approval of retrieving students data.School district archived data that include student identification number, demographic data, courserequirements, course selections, program participation,and at-risk identification will be collected and kept under locked files by the investigator.
A master-schedule from 2003-2004 will be printed, andthe classes will be counted. Students records will beaccessed through Schools Administrative Student Information Systems (SASIxp). These records will beused to track student progress from eighth grade to
high school.
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Data AnalysisIndependent
VariablesDependent
VariablesStatistic
Eighth and
Ninth GradesStudentsenrolled intrack 1 or track
2
TAKS Raw
Scores
Correlational
Method usingPost Hoc Data
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Data Analysis School master schedules will be utilized to
match the eighth grade and ninth gradesstudents enrolled in track 1 or track 2with the respective TAKS Exit-Level rawscores.
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Data Analysis 1. State the null hypothesis: There is no
statistically significant relationship between thedecision to enroll in track 1 or track 2 in theeighth and ninth grades mathematics andpass/fail status of African American students onthe eleventh grade Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) Exit-LevelMathematics Test.
2. Use Correlational Method; Use Pearsons r
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Data Analysis3. Use the Alpha Level P < 0.05.
4. Compute statistic using SPSS.
5. Apply the rejection rule: P < 0.05reject the null hypothesis
Analyze your Descriptive Statistics Tableand your Correlations Table.
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Data AnalysisIndependent
VariablesDependent
VariablesStatistic
Survey
Questions
Counselors
Responses
Descriptive
Documentation
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Data Analysis Develop matrix for data gathering.
Develop protocol
Arrange a meeting with each counselor tomeet for 60 minutes to retrieve responses.
Meet with 27 counselors and deliver
instructions on the process of responding tothe 15 questions on the survey.
Document all responses by the 27 counselors.