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High School Mathematics Trajectories: Connecting Opportunities to Learn with Student Performance

"This study is part of a larger multi-year comprehensive (K-12) mathematics and science curriculum reform initiative focusing on the connection between implemented and attained high school mathematics curriculum. Students' opportunities to learn mathematics content in two geographically diverse school districts were studied to determine if these are linked with student performance in mathematics. All high school students and their mathematics teachers in both districts provided data for this study. Preliminary findings support the contention that curriculum differentiation exists at the high school level. The data suggest that different content trajectories offer very different opportunities to learn within and between school districts and these content trajectories are linked to levels of student performance in mathematics. The findings have implications for student learning outcomes and curriculum policy."

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