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Standards Delivery News
Editorial team improves accuracy across standards collection
The Academic Benchmarks Editorial Team has kept our standards collection accurate and up to date. As a part of this continual improvement, we recently implemented some important changes to standards documents. Those changes are described below.
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Course-based standards reorganized to better fit clients' needs
In response to customer requests to structure course-based standards in multiple formats, Academic Benchmarks has begun reorganizing a portion of our previously-released high school standards to support additional formats. This reorganization began in November and is scheduled to be complete by December 30.
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New feature: Instant view of changes
Have you ever begun to request the latest standards, only to see a growing list of standards marked as changed? Does that lead you to wonder what, specifically, has changed? Perhaps knowing the extent and type of each document's changes would affect whether or not you request a given document. Now you can know.
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Request for updated client information
To help us improve the services that are important to you, it will help to have additional information about our customers. Currently, each client may have as little as one stored contact in our system. We would appreciate your taking a few minutes to let us know a little more about that contact, as well as information about other contacts within your organization with whom we may communicate.
To do so, please log onto your account at http://www.academicbenchmarks.com , then click on Update Client Profile. In the Update Client Profile section of the resulting page, you may edit or add additional contacts to your account.
We appreciate your taking a few minutes to update your account as we strive to improve our services and communication to you. We will keep you updated as details about these enhancements become available.
Today's Alignment Tip
Have you used the Report Management System's "Customize Your Reports" feature yet? With it, you can customize which columns you receive when generating reports so you receive only the information you want.
Alignment System News
Clients can now choose how their asset info appears
When viewing a list of assets, it is important to know the properties that best distinguish those assets. For example, with one set of assets, the titles may be meaningless; for another set, the titles could be crucial in differentiating one asset from another. The alignment system now offers the ability to pre-set which asset properties are viewable: in other words, the properties that will be presented with a list of assets.
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Academic Benchmarks News
Look for Academic Benchmarks at the upcoming Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC)
Academic Benchmarks will be attending FETC, held January 22-25, 2008, in Orlando, Florida. Contact us know if you would like to meet during the conference.
Academic Benchmarks welcomes the following companies to the Academic Benchmarks family:
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Alabama
Extended Standards - Science 2007
Use the Alabama Extended Standards Grades K-12: Science (February 2007) for writing all IEPs for students with significant cognitive disabilities who will be assessed using the Alabama Alternate Assessment (AAA). This grade band (K-12) offers levels of complexity. The Extended Standards are associated with the Course of Study Standards.
Arkansas
Curriculum Frameworks Family and Consumer Science 2007
These standards replace some of the 2005 Family and Consumer Science Standards. Both the 2005 and 2007 documents are active.
Connecticut
CAPT and CMT Test Documents
These are the test documents for Connecticut's CMT and CAPT tests. We have captured data for Reading Comprehension, Response to Literature, and Writing, Editing and Revising and Mathematics. Although these are state-created documents, the type data in each of them differs, and is rather general and repetitive from grade to grade.
Florida
Sunshine State Standards - Mathematics 2007
The new Mathematics Content Standards were approved by the State Board of Education on September 18, 2007. The Department of Education recognized the need for a systematic approach to review and revise all of the academic standards, and on January 17, 2006, the State Board of Education adopted a six-year cycle that set forth a schedule of the regular review and revision of all K-12 content standards. This move went far beyond increasing the rigor of the standards; however, it included this alignment of the new standards with assessments, instructional materials, professional development, and teacher licensure exams. This way, the new standards and their higher levels of rigor will be fully integrated into the entire culture of K-12 instruction. Next up is Science.
Georgia
Performance Standards Modern Languages and Latin 2007
These standards are based on Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century and the ACTFL Performance Guidelines for K-12 Learners (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language). The GPS are organized in outline form, integrating the national standards and the three modes of communication: Interpersonal (IP), Interpretive (INT), and Presentational (P), as well as Cultural Perspectives, Practices and Products (CU) and Connections, Comparisons, and Communities (CCC). Also included are assessment recommendations and a list of suggested skills and topics for each level. The GPS for Modern Languages do not set an upper limit of what can be accomplished by the students; rather, they establish the minimum that students should be able to do by the end of each level.
Performance Standards Language Arts 2007
Literature and History of the Old and New Testaments Courses: The purpose of the course shall be to accommodate the rights and desires of those teachers and students who wish to teach and study the Old and New Testaments and to familiarize students with the contents of the Old and New Testaments, the history recorded by the Old and New Testaments, the literary style and structure of the Old and New Testaments, the customs and cultures of the peoples and societies recorded in the Old and New Testaments, and the influence of the Old and New Testaments upon law, history, government, literature, art, music, customs, morals, values, and culture.
Illinois
Assessment Frameworks Social Studies 2007
While ISBE is not currently assessing Social Science, many educators have requested copies of the frameworks for use in local school districts. The Frameworks contain assessment objectives and clear and concise statements of testable material at each grade level. Each assessment objective was derived from the Illinois Learning Standards and Benchmarks, for each grade level, posted on the Illinois State Board of Education Web site.
Indiana
Academic Standards - Social Studies 2007
The updated Indiana Academic Standards for Social Studies were approved unanimously by Indiana's Education Roundtable on September 20, 2007, and by the Indiana State Board of Education on October 3, 2007. The standards were updated for all grades, K-12, and cover history, economics, geography, and government. These standards were reviewed by national content reviewers for content, rigor, specificity, and comprehensiveness.
Academic Standards - High School Music 2007
The revision of Indiana's Academic Standards for Music was presented to the State Board of Education and unanimously approved on May 2, 2007. We've recently added the high school courses.
Complete List of News By State
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