The Study of Alignment among the Current Secondary School Textbooks of Arts and Humanities Learning Area, Instruction and Competency Indicators

The main purpose of this study is to judge the correlation among current arts and humanities textbooks, instruction, and competency indicators for Grades 1-9 Curriculum Guideline. The data is collected through questionnaires answered by 13 secondary school art teachers. The conclusion can be summarized as follows:Sex, seniority and major of the teachers have a correlation with curriculum alignment. Degree level does not correlate. Time used, reason for use, degree of dependence and importance of instruction don’t correlate with curriculum alignment. Only textbook version correlates. The author suggests that future studies can align content between standards and assessment, and thoroughly compare various versions of art and humanities textbooks, as well as further investigate observation of instruction in classrooms to provide references for revising indicators and editing textbooks.