Evaluating Digital Curriculum Materials With Social Studies Educators: A Pilot of the Curriculum Materials Evaluation Tool, Version 3 (CMETv3)

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  In Roundtable Session: Critical Curricular Orientations in Social Studies Teacher Education (Table 7)

Abstract

After dominating history education for more than a century, print textbooks are quickly losing ground to digital curriculum materials. Yet almost none have undergone rigorous evaluation, let alone by the teachers who use them—allowing for historically inaccurate, insensitive, or damaging materials to slip into classrooms nationwide. In this study, we partner with seven teachers to refine a tool for evaluating digital materials: the CMETv3. Data from a survey and think-aloud interview examined: a) how the teachers adapt curriculum materials they find online; and b) how the CMET facilitated their analysis of one such material set. The study recenters teachers’ voices in conversations over curriculum and contributes towards a means of vetting history materials in the digital age.

Authors

• Eric B. Freedman, University of Iowa
  Presenting Author

• Tina Y. Gourd, University of Washington
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• Bianca Schamberger, University of Iowa
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• Amira S. Nash, University of Iowa
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• Gabrielle Kouri, Iowa City Community School District
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• Gabriella Sanchez-Stern, Seattle Public Schools
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