The purpose of this study was to determine teachers’ perceptions of the
relationship of the Katy Management of Automated Curriculum (KMAC) system
developed by Katy ISD in Katy, Texas, on planning for learning, delivery of instruction
and evaluation of student learning in the classroom. KMAC is a customized, proprietary
networked technology curriculum management system created for online access to
curriculum and the creation and sharing of lesson plans. Data was collected from 635
teachers district-wide through an online survey. This data was used to determine
whether there were differences between/among teachers and teacher leaders and
between/among elementary, junior high and high school teachers in their perceived
impact of the KMAC on planning for learning, delivery of instruction and evaluation of
student learning.
Regarding planning for learning, teachers were found to have a moderately
positive perception of KMAC with teacher leaders being slightly more positive. In addition, statistically significant differences were found between grade levels with
elementary teachers more positive than secondary teachers. Regarding delivery of
instruction, teacher leaders again perceived a more positive relationship with KMAC
than the teacher non-leaders. Statistically significant differences were also found
between elementary and junior high, elementary and high school and between junior
high and high school teachers, with elementary teachers being the most positive.
Teachers were the least positive toward KMAC and the evaluation of student
learning. While a statistically significant relationship was found in relationship to the
grade level taught and evaluation, this area was admittedly weaker than the other two
areas in district development and teachers’ perceptions. While the position of teacher
leader seemed to impact the results in all categories, the grade level taught was found to
have the greatest statistical impact on the teacher perceptions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8387 |
| Date | 2010 August 1900 |
| Creators | Hogue, Sharon L. |
| Contributors | Collier, Virginia, Cole, Bryan |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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