Use case: If your product only tracks student mastery against academic standards, and a standard is too broad to tell you specifically which learning component within the standard the student has not yet mastered.
Your product tracks student progress against academic standards. But a standard like “analyze and solve pairs of simultaneous linear equations” covers several distinct learning components: (1) understanding what a solution represents graphically, (2) solving the system algebraically, and (3) applying it to a real-world problem. A student who has mastered two of those and is stuck on the third still shows as “not proficient” on the standard as a whole. That tells you the student is struggling, but not specifically where.
Without knowing the nuanced learning components that comprise an academic standard, the only options are to treat the standard as one pass-or-fail unit, or to build your own learning component breakdown by hand for every standard your product covers.
How Learning Commons helps
Knowledge Graph breaks each standard into its underlying learning components, the specific skills and concepts that make it up. Assess your students’ comprehension at the learning component level, instead of the standard level, and a broad standard’s pass/fail becomes a precise, per-concept view of exactly where a student needs additional support.
Datasets in Knowledge Graph include:
- Academic Standards map a standard to its authoritative statement, sourced through Common Good Learning Tools‘s CASE data across all 50 U.S. states and core subjects
- Learning Components break a standard into the granular skills and concepts underneath it, currently available for mathematics across all grades, and for ELA in grades K-2 so far
- Learning Progressions sequence academic standards into what comes before and after a given skill, currently available for math
- Standards Crosswalks map an academic standard to its equivalent in another state’s framework, currently available for math
- Curriculum aligns your content to real classroom materials like Illustrative Mathematics, available on a gated basis
How it works
What you can do with this
- Assess your students’ understanding at the specific learning component level instead of the broader academic standard level.
- Organize a per-student view that’s precise enough to target intervention at the exact skill gap, using the performance data your product already collects.
- Generate targeted support for the specific learning component a student needs to master, rather than re-teaching the whole academic standard.
- Roll learning component-level results up to a standard-level view for reporting, without losing the underlying detail.
- Learning component data is also the foundation for sequencing what a student should work on next, using learning progressions and curricula data.