Colorado P-12 Academic Standards
Online Searchable Standards with Depth of Knowledge Indicators*
This feature will allow users to easily extract specific grade levels
within a desired content area. It also provides an opportunity for one
to extract all grade level expectations related to a particular prepared
graduate competency. This unique feature will help districts map
curriculum that will build to each prepared graduate competency.
In addition, depth of knowledge (DOK) indicators for each evidence
outcome and nature of science statements have been embedded into the
online searchable tool. DOK indicates the level at which a student must
learn and apply the thinking processes/skills to successfully
demonstrate a particular evidence outcome. DOK measures cognitive
demand, or complexity, and is assigned using a hierarchy of levels 1
through 4, with a range of DOK levels assigned to each evidence outcome
in all content areas. For more information about DOK click
here.
* The reissued Colorado Academic Standards in Mathematics and Reading, Writing and Communicating will be added to the online searchable pages as soon as possible. DOK indicators in these content areas will be forthcoming.
Career & Technical Education Standards and Validated Academic Alignments
In addition to requiring the review process of the academic standards, Senate Bill 08-212 also called for the State Board of Education to "take into account any Career & Technical Education standards adopted by the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education, created in Section 23-60-104, C.R.S., and, to the extent practicable, shall align the appropriate portions of the preschool through elementary and secondary Education standards with the Career and Technical standards."
The revised and approved Career & Technical Education Standards and their alignments to the academic model content standards are available at http://www.coloradostateplan.com/content_standards.htm.
For more information, contact Scott Stump, Dean of Career & Technical Education (ph) 303-595-1578.
For Standards Web site technical assistance, please e-mail Anna Huffman