A Comparative Analysis of
Geometry Education on Curriculum
Standards, Textbook Structure, and
Textbook Items between the U.S.
and Korea

Kyong Mi Choi; Hye-Jin Park

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2013.947a

A Comparative Analysis of Geometry Education on Curriculum Standards, Textbook Structure, and Textbook Items between the U.S. and Korea

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Kyong Mi Choi ¹ ^* , Hye-Jin Park ²

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¹ University of Iowa, USA² University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

This study compares American and Korean curriculum standards, textbooks, and geometry items to help explain the consistent differences that have been found between the achievement levels of U.S. and Korean students in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) mathematics. Since PISA measures the mathematical proficiency of 15-year-old students, this study focuses primarily on 8th-grade curriculum standards and textbooks. The findings provide valuable information for curriculum designers and textbook editors to help improve the quality of geometry curricula and textbooks. Teachers can also use these findings to assess the proficiency levels of items in the textbooks they use, so that they can develop lesson plans appropriate to the ability of their students and select relevant problems for their classes.

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PISA
geometry
mathematics textbook
item difficulty
mathematics curriculum

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2013, Volume 9, Issue 4, 379-391

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Choi, K. M., & Park, H.-J. (2013). A Comparative Analysis of Geometry Education on Curriculum Standards, Textbook Structure, and Textbook Items between the U.S. and Korea. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(4), 379-391. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.947a

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Choi KM, Park HJ. A Comparative Analysis of Geometry Education on Curriculum Standards, Textbook Structure, and Textbook Items between the U.S. and Korea. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(4):379-91. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.947a

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Choi KM, Park HJ. A Comparative Analysis of Geometry Education on Curriculum Standards, Textbook Structure, and Textbook Items between the U.S. and Korea. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(4), 379-391. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.947a

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Choi, Kyong Mi, and Hye-Jin Park. "A Comparative Analysis of Geometry Education on Curriculum Standards, Textbook Structure, and Textbook Items between the U.S. and Korea". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2013 9 no. 4 (2013): 379-391. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.947a

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Choi, K. M., and Park, H.-J. (2013). A Comparative Analysis of Geometry Education on Curriculum Standards, Textbook Structure, and Textbook Items between the U.S. and Korea. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(4), pp. 379-391. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.947a

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Choi, Kyong Mi et al. "A Comparative Analysis of Geometry Education on Curriculum Standards, Textbook Structure, and Textbook Items between the U.S. and Korea". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 9, no. 4, 2013, pp. 379-391. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.947a