Standards Alignment to Curriculum and Assessment

EDKAIROS / STANDARD ALIGNMENT

Standards indicate what students should know and be able to do within a particular content area,
while curriculum shapes how students will gain the knowledge, skills, and abilities as described
in the standards. Assessments can be used to gather evidence related to student learning.
Assessments may include summative, benchmark, or interim tests, or may involve more informal
methods of data collection through a formative assessment process.
A curriculum that is aligned to standards is a curriculum that ensures that students have the
opportunity to access the content and skills outlined in those standards.Through the
administration of assessments that are carefully aligned to standards and curriculum, educators
are able to gain an understanding of how student learning is progressing. Like curriculum,
assessments must be aligned to content and to grade-specific standards, in order to assess
whether or not a student has gained the knowledge, skills, and abilities described in the
standards.