Is Curriculum Quality Uniform? Evidence from Florida

Cory Koedel, Rachana Bhatt and Douglas Lehmann

No 1206, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Missouri

Abstract: We construct a large panel dataset of schools and districts in Florida to evaluate curricular effectiveness in elementary mathematics. A key innovation of our study is that we allow for curriculum quality to be non-uniform across various mathematics subtopics. We find evidence of variability in curricular effectiveness across different subtopics within the same curriculum. Our findings suggest that educational administrators, particularly those working in districts with heterogeneous student populations, should consider the topical performance of their various curricular alternatives when making adoption decisions.

Keywords: Curriculum evaluation; curriculum uniformity; Harcourt curriculum evaluation; Florida curriculum evaluation; curriculum quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-05-12
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