Teachable and Measurable Standards

Aligned·By·Design Model-enabled Content Standards are teachable, measurable and easily benchmarked with international, state and federal standards and assessments. 

The standards are distinguished by high-definition, knowledge-referenced content which can be perfectly aligned with instructional curriculum and assessments.  They precisely define, sequence and transparently communicate what a student needs to learn for proficiency, grade-by-grade and class-by-class. 

To be teachable and measurable, content standards, whether common core, state or district, must:

• Clearly and unequivocally define the specific content knowledge and application skills which a student needs to master for proficiency in each subject area and grade

• Be precisely aligned to show how the natural progression of content knowledge and skills builds sequentially from one grade to the next and across the curriculum

• Be easy to understand, communicated effectively to districts, schools and teachers and modeled through aligned, knowledge-referenced instructional curriculum, including lesson plans and unit assessments

• Specify grade- and content-specific performance expectations that clearly articulate the unit and course/grade knowledge and skills to be measured for each state and federal performance level (basic, proficient, advanced)

• Be aligned with assessment data that is available in real-time to enable districts, schools and teachers to evaluate ongoing student performance in relation to the expectations and to help administrators and teachers inform and guide instruction and guide remediation

• Be defined to enable their precise benchmarking with international and other content standards or assessments

• Be transparent along with information about how state assessments are aligned to the standards with that information current and communicated openly whenever standards, curriculum or assessments are clarified, updated or revised

Related Pages

• Enabling Common Core State Standards

• Examples of 'Content-Lite’ Standards

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