I need information on private (corporate) and public (government
resources, accreditation bodies) from which I can gather Standards and
Curriculum Alignment (Terminology, Educator Approved Aids and
Resources) information for Public Schools in multiple states.
Specifically, within the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia, Arizona, and California. |
Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
27 Jun 2005 12:18 PDT
sjmohan-ga,
There are close to 200 results listed here:
://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-20%2CGGLG%3Aen&biw=1132&q=%22Standards+*+Curriculum+Alignment%22+%28NY+OR+NJ+OR+PA+OR+MD+OR+VA+OR+AZ+OR+CA%29
that in some fashion involve standards/curriculum alignment, and touch
upon the states you mentioned.
As I am not terribly familiar with the key concepts here, it is
difficult to gauge which of these materials -- if any -- are the sort
you need.
Could you look over this preliminary list and let us know which of the
materials are especially on-target. With a bit more feedback from
you, I may be able to put together a final list that contains the
sorts of materials you need.
Thanks,
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
sjmohan-ga
on
27 Jun 2005 16:04 PDT
Pafalafa-ga,
The very first result leads me to the Arizona standards for schools
(http://www.ade.az.gov/standards/contentstandards.asp). I wanted this
for each of the states but additionally wanted any curriculm specific
term or thesauraus alignment data. The document at the Arizona site is
what I would term a public source. The drawback of this is, of course,
that it needs to be constantly monitored for changes and micro level
changes cannot be tracked easily. There are companies like Academic
Benchmarks and Curriculum Mapper (http://www.academicbenchmarks.com
and http://www.curriculummapper.com/homesite/default.htm) that provide
tools and services that monitor these changes. Also, I was trying to
narraw down any resources that might have such tools publicly
available (perhaps some federal source).
Terminology is also a tricky concept. The mathematical principle of
"borrowing" (while subtracting a larger number from a smaller one) is
referred to as "regrouping" in certain states or districts. Academic
Benchmarks provides this as a side by side service for industry
clients. I wanted to know if there were State documents that could be
accessed to get a copy of this. Please go to
http://www.academicbenchmarks.com/product.epl#alignment to get a
better idea of the tools I am referring too.
Currently, the only resources I know of are curriculm mapper and
academic benchmarks altough the former is a VAR of the latter. So I
wanted to mine some alternatives and also find state information that
might suffice atleast in the immediate timeframe.
Hope this clarifies it. Please let me know if you have any further doubts.
Regards,
Sandeep
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
27 Jun 2005 16:39 PDT
Hello again,
At first, I thought I understood what you're after, but your
clarification has me confused.
Any chance I can get you to restate the question, and let us know as
clearly as possible what you're after.
Of course, there may be another researcher with a better understanding
of what's needed here, and if so, I'm sure they won't hesitiate to
make known their interest in working on this.
Thanks,
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
sjmohan-ga
on
27 Jun 2005 21:16 PDT
pafalafa-ga,
You are right. Sorry about that. Let me try again.
There are two blocks of data that I am looking for,
a. The Curriculm standards of the specific states that I mentioned
(NY, NJ, PA, MD, VA, AZ and CA)
b. The Curriculum Alignment standards for these states - usually a
subset of item a - it speaks to the use of instructional terminology
within educational content.
To get this data there are private as well as public sources. The
latter are the state government websites itself like the State of
Arizona's curriculum site (http://snipurl.com/fvjf). This was the
first link in the link that you sent me.
The former are sites like Academic Benchmarks or Curriculum Mapper.
What I wanted to know was of a way by which I could get access to
various companies like Academic Benchmarks or find free (or paid)
tools like the one provided by Curriculum Mapper.
The state of arizona seems to be an anomaly since it provides these
resources clearly. The other states are not. Furter, I have hit a wall
trying to identify companies and services like Curriculum Mapper
and/or Academic Benchmarks. I know there has to be some out there
though.
I hope this clarifies it better. All te companies I mentioned are in
the first few link in the custom search you sent me - in addition to
the links I sent you through my previous mail.
Regards,
Sandeep
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
28 Jun 2005 05:16 PDT
Bear with me a bit -- it will take some time for me to zero in on
precisely what your after.
Let's start with these two:
http://www.state.nj.us/njded/cccs/
Is this the type of link you're looking for regarding a state's standards?
http://designedinstruction.com/services/consulting/standards/
Is this the sort of private-sector company you're interested in?
Any and all feedback is most welcome.
paf
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Clarification of Question by
sjmohan-ga
on
28 Jun 2005 09:42 PDT
State Standards: Yes. Although this link (one level up from where you
were) is more inclusive - http://www.nj.gov/njded/aps/cccs/
Private Sector Firm: Yes, again. Although Academic Benchmarks
(http://www.academicbenchmarks.com) is spot on.
Please look at this page (
http://www.academicbenchmarks.com/product.epl#alignment )from academic
benchmarks to see an example of the "Content Alignment" beyond mining
the State Standard that are available. I was looking for private
sector firms that rendered the service described here. Also, it is
possible that there is a federal resource similar to this that is
available free of charge. This is the second aspect of what I wanted
to identify.
sjm
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
28 Jun 2005 12:31 PDT
I'm inching my way along on this one.
Does this link get you what you need for the public-sources part of your question?
http://www.letshomeschool.com/state_core_curriculum_guidelines.htm
Let me know how it looks.
paf
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Clarification of Question by
sjmohan-ga
on
28 Jun 2005 13:25 PDT
paf,
Yes. The other part is for tools public an private that will help me
keep this updated via a dB feed or similar method. If you look at what
Academic Benchmarks offers, this is essentialy it. Hwever where they
are different is that their tool formats it into your own custom
designed format so that at our end the New York Curriculm looks the
same as Massachussetts.
The last part of my search was in search of tools or their providers
(public and private).
But, yes, the first part of my question is definitely answered. Thank you.
Sandeep
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