The Global Learning Resource Connection Supporting the Next Generation of Education The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) A JES & Co. Program Diny Golder.

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


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


*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*


Research



Reporting

Student Portfolios


Research

Student Portfolios


Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Dta46f649http://purl.org/Dta46f649




Research



Reporting

Student Portfolios


Research

Student Portfolios


Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Zta46f682http://purl.org/Zta46f682



State/Territory curriculum


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

http://www.semantic-conference.com/

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



Connecting Resources through Describing and Relating


Look Familiar?


National curriculum*


Research



Reporting

Student Portfolios


Research

Student Portfolios


Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Dta46f649http://purl.org/Dta46f649




Research



Reporting

Student Portfolios


Research

Student Portfolios


Pathways (Individual & Program) http://purl.org/Zta46f682http://purl.org/Zta46f682



State/Territory curriculum


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]

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