Analysing the Alignment of Single National Curriculum (SNC) 2022 and English Textbook of Grade 4 through the Lens of Bloom's Taxonomy

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to examine the alignment of the Single National Curriculum 2022 of English with the Textbooks published by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board for Grade 4 focusing on the Specification of student Learning Objectives (SLOs) pertaining to competencies (Oral Communication, Reading & Critical thinking, Vocabulary & Grammar and Writing) through the Lens of cognitive level of Bloom's Taxonomy. In this study a Quantitative based Document Analysis was used as a research design. For data analysis, the survey of the enacted curriculum method (SEC) was used to measure the degree of alignment between the curriculum and textbook about SLOs with respect to each selected competency. Using the alignment index method provided by Porter (2002), a quantitative measure of alignment for each competence was obtained and the results was compared to cognitive levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Overall with Alignment Index it was found that there is misalignment between the SLOs based competences of curriculum and textbooks from Grade 4 with regard to Cognitive Domain of bloom taxonomy. In other words, all the sub-levels of the Cognitive Domain are present but their order is random. This misalignment was not same for all the competences.

Keywords: Curriculum, Textbook, Student Learning Outcomes, Competencies, Oral Communication, Reading & Critical thinking, Vocabulary & Grammar, Writing. Cognitive Domain, Bloom taxonomy