Teacher Perceptions and Applications of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (Taas) in the Seventh-Grade Social Studies Curriculum
Description:
This investigation sought to determine how seventh-grade social studies teachers perceive TAAS objectives for social studies, language arts, and mathematics and how they apply them in the classroom. A detailed questionnaire was submitted to fifty teachers in the Dallas metropolitan area; a 72 percent. return was received. Though teachers expressed a favorable attitude toward emphasizing the higher-level thinking objectives, many indicated that their lesson plans and teaching methods have remain…
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Date:
August 1994
Creator:
Harmon, Larry G.
Partner:
UNT Libraries