Do the Common Core State Standards Support Developmentally Responsive Teaching of Young Adolescents?

• In Event: 35.082 - Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: 35.082-24 - Literacy Research Focused on Young Adolescents

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the ELA component of the CCSS using the American Middle Level Education's established framework for effective middle level schools. The content analysis was a multistage process. First, categories were determined using AMLE’s description of a developmentally responsive curriculum. Then, a careful reading of the standards was conducted to determine the unit of analysis. A codebook and inter-rater reliability was established. The overall findings illustrate the standards meet the criteria for challenging. However, the other criteria were not identified as central to the CCSS. There are simply some characteristics of This We Believe and middle level curricular philosophy that cannot be measured with the CCSS.

Authors

• Carla K Meyer, Duquesne University

• Nance S Wilson, SUNY - College at Cortland

• Laurie A. Ramirez, Appalachian State University