Reporting Standards vs. Learning Standards

In Aspen, reporting standards are the standards teachers enter scores for. Learning standards are the concepts covered within a reporting standard, such as Common Core, or state-specific learning standards.

What is a reporting standard in Aspen?

If your district uses standards-based grades in any of your schools in Aspen, your system administrator creates rubrics. Rubrics are assigned to the appropriate courses in your school's course catalog. Each rubric can contain several criteria, which appear as reporting standards in teacher gradebooks:

In the gradebook, teachers align the appropriate reporting standards to assignments. Then, they enter scores for each reporting standard within an assignment to track student progress in mastering specific skills.

What is a learning standard in Aspen?

You or your district can align learning standards to reporting standards. Learning standards often come from a standards provider (such as Common Core standards or state-specific learning standards):

Learning standards are numerous and very granular. By aligning several learning standards to one reporting standard, teachers can enter a score for one reporting standard that includes several learning standards.

For example, if a Science class is writing an assignment on the effects of global warming, the Science teacher might align the Defend and resolve views and arguments in documents and Read and write to interpret or draw conclusions reporting standards to the assignment.

In addition, each of those reporting standards might be aligned to many more learning standards.