Alignment between Single National Curriculum (Snc-2022) and Textbooks of English for Grade-5, Published by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Pakistan

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to analyse the alignment of the Single National Curriculum 2022 of English with the textbooks published by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board for Grade 5 focusing on the Specification of student Learning Objectives (SLOs) pertaining to competencies such as: Oral Communication, Reading & Critical thinking, Vocabulary & Grammar and Writing. 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 graphs were used to display the findings accordingly. Overall a considerable misalignment was found using Alignment Index (AI 0.65) between 5^th grade curriculum and textbook, however, this misalignment was not same for all the competencies.