> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Introduction
> Overview of Academic Standards evaluators that measure whether educational content is aligned to a standard's sub-skills, or learning components.
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## The problem
Academic standards define what students are expected to know at each grade level, and they shape curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
Edtech developers align their products to these standards, but a standards tag is often a claim, not a guarantee:
* **A standard is rarely a single skill**
* Most bundle several sub-skills (i.e., [learning components](/knowledge-graph/schema-reference/learning-components))
* A question could address one learning component and ignore the rest for a given standard
* **Standards vary by jurisdiction**
* A skill emphasized in one framework may be scoped differently, or absent entirely, in another
* Alignment has to be judged against the framework in question, not a generic notion of a standard
Asking human experts to manually check educational content against every learning component, across a bank of hundreds of questions, does not scale.
## What we're building
Our Academic Standards evaluators assess whether educational content aligns with a given standard's learning components.
| Output | Description |
| :-------------------------------------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Fine-grained, component-level data** | Validates tagging and trust that an item measures the skill it claims to |
| **Coverage maps** | Surface exactly which standards, and which learning components, a question bank covers |
| **Reasoning and feedback for every judgment** | Gives actionable feedback on turning *looks aligned* into *is aligned* |
Our evaluators judge whether a question aligns to standards at the [learning components](/knowledge-graph/schema-reference/learning-components) level:
| Evaluator | Description |
| :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [**Math Standards Alignment**](/evaluators/academic-standards-evaluators/math-standards-alignment) | Judges whether a Math question aligns to Math standards in a supported jurisdiction |
| **ELA Standards Alignment** Coming soon | Judges whether an ELA question aligns to standards in a supported jurisdiction |
## Related topics
Run an evaluator in the Evaluators playground, a Python notebook, or with
the SDK.
Assess whether a math question aligns to a standard's learning components.
Explore the standards frameworks available in Knowledge Graph.