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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)
    • 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.

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What we’re building

Our Standards evaluators assess whether educational content aligns with a given standard’s learning components. Our evaluators judge whether a question aligns to standards at the learning components level: