A computer assisted process for developing curriculum plans tightly aligned to state assessment standards

Low school achievement presents a profoundly serious national crisis affecting, not only the lives of students, but the ability of our nation and our people to compete in an increasingly competitive world. This research takes direct aim at this problem by developing a computer assisted process for constructing useable school curriculum plans that will give teachers usable and practical daily guidance and tools needed to quickly raise the achievement and achievement scores of their students. The process will be systematic, disciplined, and time- and cost-effective. The curriculum plans will be school unique and directly linked to state mandated assessment standards, assessment test results, current measured levels of student skill development, textbooks, state content standards, and local needs. The plans will provide direct guidance in daily instruction and will include sample daily lesson plans and assessments of student learning. The curriculum plans will allow state mandated assessment test results to be used by schools to assess program and teacher effectiveness relative to each specific instructional objective. Building on Corridor’s existing technology base, this project combines systems engineering to design a process for developing curriculum plans and computer programming to automate virtually all the data/information management and manipulation tasks. Low school achievement presents a profoundly serious national crisis affecting, not only the lives of students, but the ability of our nation and our people to compete in an increasingly competitive world. This research takes direct aim at this problem by developing a computer assisted process for constructing useable school curriculum plans that will give teachers usable and practical daily guidance and tools needed to quickly raise the achievement scores of their students. The process will be systematic, disciplined, and time- and cost-effective. The curriculum plans will be school unique and directly linked to state mandated assessment standards, assessment test results, current measured levels of student skill development, textbooks, state content standards, and local needs. The plans will provide direct guidance in daily instruction and will include sample daily lesson plans and assessments of student learning. The curriculum plans will allow state mandated assessment test results to be used by schools to assess program and teacher effectiveness relative to each specific instructional objective. Building on Corridor’s existing technology base, this project combines systems engineering to design a process for developing curriculum plans and computer programming to automate virtually all the data/information management and manipulation tasks.