Development of a Curriculum Integration Perception Survey: Two Future Middle School Staffs' Readiness For Change

Abstract

A survey instrument was developed to gauge teachers' attitudes to curriculum integration and middle level education. The curriculum integration survey was based on the critical attributes of Fogarty's (1991) 10 curriculum integration models. A pilot study of the survey was done for two school staffs in British Columbia, Canada. The result of the pilot study indicated a preference for Fogarty's within-a-discipline Connected (concepts) model. In addition, for both staffs there appeared to be a positive correlation between attitudes for middle level education and curriculum integration. The survey could serve as an initial step in teacher in service in these areas.

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“…Similarly, the representative items of the 'Connected Model' have received mean scores below the midpoint on the scale where the highest score has been reported for the item ''the teacher should make connections within a subject area by asking questions that stretch students' ideas'' (Mean=2.37; SD=0.98) and the lowest score have been given for the item ''the teacher should explicitly make links between subject areas'' (Mean=1.32, SD=0.82) (Table 4). * The questionnaire items are adopted from a study by Newman (1993).…”

“…While the fragmented model presents an isolated and distinct nature of the disciplines, the connected model still has separate disciplines but features the links between concepts within each discipline. The third model in the nested where the social and thinking skills have been integrated within subject content, then the sequenced model has proposed to teach these integrated competencies in a pre-determined order (Newman, 1993). Though the commonalities between subjects have been examined in the shared model, relating these commonalities to a given theme has been introduced in the webbed model.…”

“…The first section contained five questions for the demographic information of the respondents. The second section Millennium Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(1): (2021) has been adopted from a study for Newman (1993) to examine teachers' perceptions towards the curriculum integration models. It has been constituted from 50 statements related to Fogarty's (1991) ten models of curriculum integration.…”

“…Regarding the 'Networked Model' (Table 6), the item ''students should actively create the curriculum out of their day-day today lives'' and the item ''the onus of integration ought to move to the student rather than to an outside instructional designer or teacher'' have received the lowest (Mean=1.45, SD=0.91) and highest (Mean=2.20, SD=0.96) scores respectively. * The questionnaire items are adopted from a study by Newman (1993).…”

“…Likewise, the highest mean score has been reported for the item ''similar thinking skills ought to be promoted across the curriculum in various subject areas'' (Mean=3.45, SD=0.89) in the 'Threaded model' (Table 8) whereas the lowest has been got for the item ''similar thinking skills ought to be promoted across the curriculum in various subject areas'' (Mean=2.45, SD=0.91). Newman (1993).…”