Secondary Lenses on Learning:
Leadership for Mathematics Education
in Middle and High Schools - Survey
Welcome to the web site for the Leadership Content Knowledge (LCK) for Mathematics,Secondary Administrators Survey (for middle and high school administrators). LCK relates to administrators’ knowledge of mathematics for teaching and their ideas about the nature of mathematics learning and teaching.
The LCK Secondary Administrators Survey was adapted from our Thinking about Mathematics Instruction (TMI), LCK for Mathematics Elementary and Middle School Principals’ Survey, developed for a study of the LCK for mathematics of 500 elementary and middle school principals.
One purpose of the LCK Secondary Administrators Survey was to help formulate a baseline picture of the LCK of a large sample of middle and high school administrators (principals, assistant principals, guidance counselors, math department heads, teachers, and various members of central office staff such as assistant superintendents or math coaches) who participated in the field test of the Lenses on Learning Secondary course. We are also using the survey to assess the effects on LCK of taking that course. This survey is quite similar to the LCK Elementary and Middle School Principals’ Survey except that the mathematics in two sections has been modified to be appropriate for the secondary level. We also added a section that asked respondents to specify how much responsibility they have for a variety of school and district leadership functions related to mathematics instruction. We did not code the responses on the Secondary Survey for the variable “math in use,” as we did in the TMI study, nor did we develop coding schemes for doing a finer grain coding of open responses that did not appear to change from pre-test to post-test – the so-called static scorers.
Now that we have finished administering surveys, we are releasing all items, with the exception of those items that are part of the Doing Mathematics section, for use by those who wish to gain an understanding of the LCK of secondary level administrators with whom they work. We are not at liberty to release the Doing Mathematics section because it is comprised of items that are still in use in various other research contexts. We do, however, provide detailed information about the contents of this section and the website for the Learning Math for Teaching Project at the University of Michigan. Here you will find information about obtaining permission of using their survey items in your project.
The following is a Table of Contents for the survey portion of this website:
Survey Overview Assembling Your Own Mathematics Knowledge The Survey - section by section for Teaching Section Part 1 Background Information (pdf) Coding Schemes and Sample Responses Part 2 Teaching and Learning Mathematics (pdf) a. Coding Scheme for a Classroom Reflection Section A A Classroom Reflection (pdf) BELIEFS Scoring Scheme Sample Responses Section B Views About Math (pdf) b. Making Sense of the Leadership Function Data Part 3 Doing Mathematics (note that on the survey, itself, this is labeled Part 2, Section C)