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Alignment of TeachEngineering Curriculum with State and National Educational Standards

Each TeachEngineering lesson or activity is aligned with the applicable K-12 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educational standards of the state in which it was developed. So, if a lesson was developed in North Carolina, its curricular contents are aligned and indexed to the North Carolina standards.

Furthermore, in the TeachEngineering collection, every STEM standard of each state is correlated to the national standards. These TeachEngineering state-to-national correlations are scored on a three-point scale:

   weak correlation

  fair correlation

  strong correlation

In turn, TeachEngineering uses these state-to-national correlations to "figure out" if curricula that are aligned with the standards of state X are also aligned with any standards of state Y. The conservative and liberal buttons on the search interface enable you to determine how strict you want that mapping to be.

Selecting liberal as the method for correlating standards results in more matches. However, the likelihood that some of these matches are not meaningful increases. In contrast, choosing conservative (the default) results in fewer matches, but increases the likelihood that the matches are meaningful.

The table below shows the difference between a conservative and a liberal mapping of state-to-state standard correlations.

State-to-National from: standard P in state X to: national standard Q	State-to-National from: standard R in state Y to: national standard Q	Conservative from: standard P in state X to: standard R in state Y	Liberal from: standard P in state X to: standard R in state Y
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