AchievementStandards.Org is the home of the Achievement Standards Network (ASN). 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 ASN is powered by these Semantic Web technologies: RDF, OWL, SKOS, and SPARQL. Please follow each link below to learn more.
ASN data is free to use under Creative Commons Licensing. The use of ASN data is contingent upon identifying the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) as the source of the data in any manner reasonably likely:(1) to be seen by an end user of the information system in which the ASN data is used; and (2) for an end-user to associate the use of the standards data in the information system with ASN as the source of that data.
The ASN is partially funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation: Grant: #0840740 
Did you know that all ASN manifest files work out-of-the-box with Sencha's EXT JS library including: tree panels, checkbox trees and drag/drop trees? Well, they do! We use the Open Source version of EXT JS on this site when displaying standards. See http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/D2364040 for an example of our viewer. You can now download a sample ASN manifest viewer application here. Just upload to a server, unzip the files and point to the index.html file.
You can download ASN manifests by simply appending "_manifest.json" to any ASN Document URI. For example: http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/D2364040_manifest.json You will be prompted to download the manifest file in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.
If you have created applications that use ASN data and would like to share them with the ASN community Contact Us and we'll highlight them here.
You can now browse the ASN using our RDF store's faceted search interface. You can initiate a search by text, property label or URI. Here's how to begin:
Start by going to: http://asn.jesandco.org:8890/fct
From there you can:
There are a lot of side features to this interface including saving search results and adding the ASN search engine as a plugin to your web browser.
If you'd like more documentation on how to use our faceted search please visit the faceted search documentation page.
Read about how to use the new ASN REST based web services that are now in Beta. Get listings of jurisdictions and subjects while filtering ASN documents using various parameters. You can also find this information under the "Access the ASN Now" drop down menu.
We now have published documentation on how to use the new ASN URI resolution service. Learn how to request ASN data in various serializations and how to hack our URI's with some new web service options that we added to both document and statement URI's. This documentation can also be found under the "Access the ASN Now" dropdown menu item on the main ASN site.
