Determining Purpose for SEC

Step one in planning your project is to determine your purpose for using the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum in your state and district. Questions that need to be addressed include the following: What is your purpose for using Surveys of Enacted Curriculum? What questions are you trying to answer? How does this purpose relate to your state or district’s priority goals? What data do you have to support this as a need? Some typical purposes for using SEC have included the following: Analysis of the degree of alignment of standards to instructional content and/or state assessment. (A consideration for addressing this purpose is whether or not the state standards and/or assessments for the grade levels targeted in the project have been content analyzed and coded. If the appropriate standards or assessments for the content and grade level have not been coded, consideration should be given to how coding will be accomplished.) Improved student achievement utilizing SEC data for a needs assessment and aligning improvement goals and professional development based on the data results (e.g., schools identified as needs improvement because they did not meet AYP for two or more years). Evaluation of a program or initiative such as a standards-based curriculum reform, a professional development program focused on math content (MSP) or a Reading First program. Statewide analysis of assessment in relation to standards (e.g., to inform state policy or as a response to NCLB requirements). Measuring the effects of improving instruction on student achievement over time (e.g., overall achievement effects or closing achievement gap).

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document last updated 8/21/2009