Textbook Coding

Consolidation!

• :ods: seriesData.ods: Spreadsheet with Reconciled data from All series: CME, CPMP, DM, Glencoe, IMP, UCSMP; each in a separate sheet.

Analysis Resources

• seriesTextbooks.zip: download and unzip this zip file to find:
  • index.html html output of the primary Mathematica Notebook used for processing. The index.html page has supporting folders HTMLFiles and HTMLLinks . Note: many of the images provide further details when your cursor hovers over various portions of the image. e.g. Actual underlying counts in the pie charts.
  • png and pdf complete set of output files. All PDF files are scalable vector graphics and text so you can zoom in for details and out for the overview.
• Files below are representative, but are unlikely to be as up-to-date as in the zip file above.
  • CME_Timeline_Graph.pdf: Timeline Graph for CME Project Algebra 1 & 2 [CME]
  • CPMP_Timeline_Graph.pdf: Timeline Graph for Core Plus Mathematics Program [CPMP]
  • DM_Timeline_Graph.pdf: Timeline Graph for Discovering Mathematics: (Advanced) Algebra [DM]
  • Glencoe_Timeline_Graph.pdf: Timeline Graph for Glencoe Algebra 1 & 2 [Glencoe]
  • IMP_Timeline_Graph.pdf: Timeline Graph for Interactive Mathematics Program [IMP]
  • UCSMP_Timeline_Graph.pdf: Timeline Graph for University of Chicago School Mathematics Project [UCSMP]
  • CogBeh_PieChart.pdf: Cognitive Behavior Summaries, All series
  • Content_PieChart.pdf: Content Summaries, All series
  • Content_Legend_PieChart.pdf: Legend for Content Areas
  • Other_BarChart.pdf: CMX Stacked bar Charts, All series
  • CogBehOther_WordCloud.pdf: Word Clouds for Cognitive Behavior and Other Aspects
  • CogBehOther_WordCloudNoA.pdf: Word Clouds for Cognitive Behavior and Other Aspects Applying removed to highlight others
  • Content_WordCloud.pdf: Word Clouds for Content codes
  • Content_WordCloud00.pdf: Word Clouds for major content areas "00" level
  • Content_WordCloudNamed.pdf: Word Clouds for major content areas "00" level by name
  • CogBeh_Timeline_Graph.pdf: Timeline Graph for Cognitive Behaviors
• :nb: seriesTextbooks.nb: seriesTextbooks Mathematica Notebook. This file contains no output. To run, place in folder with:
  • :ods: seriesData.ods: Spreadsheet with Reconciled data from All series: CME, CPMP, DM, Glencoe, IMP, UCSMP; each in a separate sheet.
  • :ods: seriesContext.ods: Spreadsheet with context information along with valid codes and various "handles" for them.

Word Clouds for Cognitive Behavior and other Aspects:

Applying has such a dominant role in all series, that omiting it from the analysis highlights the distinctions among series more emphatically

Cognitive Behavior

These Pie Charts provide an overall summary of the three types of Cognitive Behavior: Knowing, Applying, and Reasoning.

The graph below, based on the idea of a Ternary Plot or Composition Plot, provides another way to summarize the three types of Cognitive Behavior: Knowing, Applying, and Reasoning. This presentation:

• Shows the Pie charts given above as well as a chart for each textbook in the series.
• Scales each pie chart acording to the number of questions represented
• Positions each pie chart in a way that makes visual comparisons much more accessible.

The three corners of the plot represent each of the Cognitive Behaviors: Knowing, Applying, and Reasoning. Each corner of the triangle represents 100% for that feature. The side of the triangle opposite each corner represents 0% and spreads the remaining two features along it. To help characterize the triangle in terms of the more familiar pie charts, a background of small pie charts shows the underlying "Landscape" of how the large triangle portrays the proportions. It also helps you to read off approximate values for a position in the chart since there is a row for each 10% change in proportion. There is also a small pie chart in the center of the large triangle, locating equal proportions for all three features. Each textbook series is represented in the plot by a pie chart with its position representing all texts within the series as well as a pie chart for each of the (up to three) volumes in the series, represented by .1, .2, .3 in the label.

Beneath the graphic is a narrative highlighting some observations which this presentation makes particularly accessible:

From the plot, showing 17 pie charts, their location on the plot shows, for example, that CPMP consistently involves more reasoning and that the "orbit" of the series starts with a comparative emphasis on reasoning, shifting towards knowing in year 2 and then moving to applying in year 3. Glencoe and UCSMP have very little reasoning and move from knowing to applying from book 1 to book 2. CME, in contrast, moves away from applying and knowing towards more reasoning in going from year 1 to year two. The central white tirangle represents compositions with no clear majority. Each colored triangle indicates majority representation of the associated Cognitive Behavior. All textbooks in all series lie in the top triangle, indicating that they devote more than half of their questions to Applying.

Other Aspects

Content

Contents were coded using a numerical taxonomy. Here are Word Clouds for the numerical codes:

and Pie Charts to summarize at a higher level

with associated Legend

Word Clouds at the higher level

• By Number

• By Name
  

Timeline Graphs

Timeline Graph for Cognitive Behaviors:

CME Algebra 1&2 [CME]

Core Plus Mathematics Program [CPMP]

Discovering Mathematics: (Advanced) Algebra [DM]

Glencoe Algebra 1 & 2 [Glencoe]

Interactive Mathematics Program [IMP]

University of Chicago School Mathematics Project [UCSMP]

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-- DickFurnas - 2009-09-18

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