Survey of mathematics curriculum standards for public high schools in a prefecture

The implementation of the last curriculum standards and the preparation of the new standards

Abstract

In order to know the implementation of the last national curriculum standards for high schools and the preparation of the new standards, the questionnaire survey was done for public high schools in a prefecture. Methods of the analysis were (1) according to the categories of the high schools such as ordinary courses, technical courses and integrated courses, and (2) cross tabulation based on deviation score stratification for ordinary high schools. From results of the survey, each school was implementing various curriculum for the last course of study, and for new standards, some schools were not considering the task-based study on the standards even though they are planning to increase the time for ‘mathematics III’. For grasping the actual contents of instruction, three schools were selected on the deviation score stratification, and interviewed. From the interviews to chief teachers of math-departments, we found that, beyond the limitation of the given standards and their official curriculum, various supplementary efforts were existed for getting better performance of students.