academic standards
Educational quality criteria
Academic standards are the benchmarks defining what students should know and be able to do at each grade level or in each subject area.
School systems use them to guide curriculum, measure achievement, and ensure consistency across classrooms: The state adopted new academic standards for mathematics.
Standards may address content knowledge, skills, or both.
Debates often arise over whether standards are too rigid or too lax, and who should set them.
- learning objectivesIntended outcomes of instruction
- standardized testsIdentical exams given uniformly
- test scoresNumerical exam results
- core competenciesOrganization's distinguishing capabilities
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
high expectations · grading · letter grade · passing grade · accountability · rigor · benchmarks · evaluation · performance metrics · quality assurance · accreditation · student achievement · education · course requirements · syllabus · graduation requirements · transcript · rubric
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
- school lifeschool, teacher, classroom, homework, grades
- schoolingelementary school, school, middle school, high school, primary schools
- collegecampus, courses, application, dorms, dorm room
- public schoolselementary school, middle school, high school, kindergarten, classroom
- School Administrationprincipals, vice principal, school boards, assistant principal, headmaster
academic standardsgrade inflation
Unmerited higher academic scores
dumbing down · social promotion · low expectations · leniency · permissiveness
academic standardsunschooling
Self-directed home education
autodidacticism · informal education · anti-institutionalism