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Achievement Standards are statements of what learners should know and be able to do. They may be promulgated by state departments of education, national content groups, professional organizations, labor or skill boards, and certification bodies, both in the public and private sectors. They are often referred to as learning standards, academic standards, content standards, skill standards, competency standards and performance standards, or by other terms. Many include specific granular statements of achievement levels or proficiencies in the form of benchmarks or rubrics.
The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) is comprised of four distinct but related
projects that when fully developed work together to form a coherent framework
for alignment, discovery and retrieval of educational resources by learning standards:
- The Achievement Content Standards Repository (ACSR) that includes K-12 learning standards as promulgated by departments of education in each of the United States plus standards from nationally recognized content groups and other national and international achievement standards as individual use cases may require; available in XML format and compatible with XML schemas and recommendations of the Schools Interoperability Framework, Gateway to Education Materials, Dublin Core Metadata initiative, and other technical standards
- Repositories of Aligned Standards (RAS) that include sets of exemplary Intermediary statements and vocabularies along with alignments of those statements and vocabularies to the various learning standards contained within the ACSR; and other third party intermediaries or alignment services that interoperate with the framework
- The collection of services, interfaces, protocols and agents, including the Achievement
Standards Network Registry Service that connects various classes of users to the content and functionality of the ACSR and the RAS.
- Research and Development on best practices and recommendations for representing content and skill standards within catalog records and educational systems
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