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The Global Learning Resource ConnectionSupporting the Next Generation of Education
The Achievement Standards Network (ASN)A JES & Co. Program
Diny GolderExecutive Director
JES & Co. [email protected]
ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS NETWORK (ASN)ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS NETWORK (ASN)
An Application Profile for Mapping An Application Profile for Mapping Educational Resources to Curriculum Educational Resources to Curriculum
Diny Golder, JES & Co., USA
Content Standards
What’s an ASNAchievement Standard?
Curriculum Standards
Benchmarks
Indicators
Curriculum Frameworks
FrameworksPerformance Standards
AssessmentsPerformance Indicators
Curriculum
An achievement standard is an assertion by someone in authority of what someone (a
teacher or a learner) in an educational context should do or know.
ASN is a data model for these assertions, their source document and the relationships among
assertions and documents.
The problem…• Large repositories of educational
resources are being created • Jurisdictional controls of education include
various forms of mandated curriculum e.g., national curricula (Achievement Standards)
• Metadata mapping educational resources to curriculum supports teaching, learning and accountability
Machine-addressable
form
Semantic-web amenableCurriculum
Repository
ASN Goals…
• Create an international repository of curriculum in machine addressable form that- Are accurate digital representations of curriculum and
their component statements (semantic units);- Are consistent in form; and - Are modeled in RDF and amenable to the - Semantic Web
• Extensible framework to support evolving uses• Open access
Process and result…• Gathered all current and historical
curriculum documents in the United States (In the USA, 761 documents have been
decomposed (atomized) into “statements” derived from document structure and content in excess of 350,000 learning objective statements)
• All documents and statements assigned URI and are dereferencable over the Web
Core Functions SupportCore Functions Support
Terminology
Align means that two or more curriculum statements are similar.
Correlation means that a learning resources is associated (searchable) by a curriculum statement.
Alignment• Direct Mappings–1-to-many
• Inferred (indirect) mappings–Many-to-1• Experimentation in the USA • Automatic machine processing), • defined intermediary statements
(uber /master statements); and • controlled vocabulary
MODELING RESOURCES AND MODELING RESOURCES AND CURRICULUM STATEMENTSCURRICULUM STATEMENTS
RDF Modeling
DocumeDocumentnt
AssertionAssertion
StatemeStatementnt
AssertionAssertion
AssertionAssertion
AssertionAssertion
AssertionAssertion AssertionAssertion AssertionAssertion
AssertionAssertionAssertionAssertion AssertionAssertion
Describe & Relate
• Networked computers and distributed resources need globally unique identifiers (URI) for purposes of establishing unambiguous “identity” (unique local or project identifiers won’t do!)
Given a Web-resolvable URI, an application can retrieve the appropriate text for human consumption.
Satisfying Machine needs…
Same!!Same!!
“Analyze and solve multistep problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using an organized approach, and verify …”
“Analyze and solve multistep problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using an organized approach, and verify …”
http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S1023B7C http://purl.org/ASN/resources/S1023B7C
CURRICULUM TAXON PATHContextualizing Statements
Global Interoperability
Open source achievement standards data with globally unique, Web-resolvable identifiers (URI) support:– Efficient integration of data from disparate
resource providers–Resource sharing and linking related
resources
Functions of the ASN Editor (with 2 example fields)
Written to/Read fromData Store
Navigation View
Portable RDF/XML files
- Student understands mathematics + Student knows addition + Student knows division + Student knows multiplication - Student knows how to multiply with double digits - Student knows how to multiply with triple digits
Beyond authoritative text…Description• Author• Comment• Concept Term• Description• Education Level• Jurisdiction• Local Subject• Publisher• Skill Embodied• Spatial (aspects)• Statement Label• Statement
Notation• Subject• Temporal (aspects)
Relationships
• Align To• Align From• Cross Subject
Reference• Derived From• Has Child• Is Child Of• Source• …
Administration
• Authority Status• Change Note• Created• Date Copyrighted• Date Valid• Editorial Note• History Note• Indexing Status• License• Publication Status• Rights• Rights Holder
Augmenting the Curriculum… Augmenting the Curriculum… Refining Statements & Refining Statements & Adding New RelationshipsAdding New Relationships
National Curriculum*
Digital Curriculum Resource
Research
Pathways (Individual & Program)
Professional Development Resources
Reporting
Student Portfolios
Assessment Resources
Research
Student Portfolios
ReportingProfessional Development Resources
Pathways (Individual & Program)
VELS Level 3 Mathematics Number
At Level 3, students use place value (as the idea that ‘ten of these is one of those’) to determine the size and order of whole numbers to tens of thousands, and decimals to hundredths.
Learning Area: Mathematics
Year Level: 3
Strand: Number …
http://purl.org/Dta46f649
VELS Level 3 Mathematics Number
At Level 3, students use place value (as the idea that ‘ten of these is one of those’) to determine the size and order of whole numbers to tens of thousands, and decimals to hundredths.
Learning Area: Mathematics
Year Level: 3
Strand: Number …
http://purl.org/Dta46f649
http://purl.org/Dta46f649http://purl.org/Dta46f649
Digital Resource
Assessment Resources
*This slide was created in a working session with state and federal education leaders in May 2009, Melbourne, Australia, while consulting to them regarding Australia’s National standards efforts.
National curriculum*
Digital Curriculum Resource
Research
Pathways (Individual & Program)
Professional Development Resources
Reporting
Student Portfolios
Assessment Resources
Research
Student Portfolios
ReportingProfessional Development Resources
Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Dta46f649http://purl.org/Dta46f649
Digital Curriculum Resource
Assessment Resources
Digital Curriculum Resource
Research
Pathways (Individual & Program)
Professional Development Resources
Reporting
Student Portfolios
Assessment Resources
Research
Student Portfolios
ReportingProfessional Development Resources
Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Zta46f682http://purl.org/Zta46f682
Digital Curriculum Resource
Assessment Resources
State/Territory curriculum
*This slide was created in a working session with state and federal education leaders in May 2009, Melbourne, Australia, while consulting to them regarding Australia’s National standards efforts.
Current Efforts
USAUK
AU
1st: export your data as a set of relations
• From the presentation of Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead given at• the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA, USA
2nd: export your second set of data
• From the presentation of Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead given at • the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA, USA
3rd: start merging your data
• From the presentation of Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead given at • the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA, USA
Connecting Resources through Describing and Relating
• From the presentation of Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead given at • the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA, USA
Look Familiar?
National curriculum*
Digital Curriculum Resource
Research
Pathways (Individual & Program)
Professional Development Resources
Reporting
Student Portfolios
Assessment Resources
Research
Student Portfolios
ReportingProfessional Development Resources
Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Dta46f649http://purl.org/Dta46f649
Digital Curriculum Resource
Assessment Resources
Digital Curriculum Resource
Research
Pathways (Individual & Program)
Professional Development Resources
Reporting
Student Portfolios
Assessment Resources
Research
Student Portfolios
ReportingProfessional Development Resources
Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Zta46f682http://purl.org/Zta46f682
Digital Curriculum Resource
Assessment Resources
State/Territory curriculum
*This slide was created in a working session with state and federal education leaders in May 2009, Melbourne, Australia, while consulting to them regarding Australia’s National standards efforts.
ASN TOOLS & SERVICES…ASN TOOLS & SERVICES…
Tools & Services• Batch downloads of curriculum• Mechanism to dereference an ASN
URI • Web Services for interactions with the
repository by metadata generation tools• Searching & browsing interfaces to
the curriculum
An ASN statement is resolvable over the web.
Try IT !!!
Simply paste the unique URI in a browser, and the RDF/XLM will be returned, showing descriptions and relationships.
Future WorkFuture Work
• Statement versioning –Deviation from current document-centric
focus to evolving statements• Vocabulary extensions–Strand map (navigable paths) extensions
& authoring environment• Enhanced array of properties–Continuous discovery of new assertions to
be made
Work in Progress
The Achievement Standards Network is part of the Global Learning Resource Connection;
collaborating to connect the dots between education systems that support teaching and learning.
The Global Learning Resource Connection… The Global Learning Resource Connection… Working together for a global education.
Questions ?Diny GolderExecutive DirectorJES & [email protected]
Organisations around the world are connecting.