Title       : Computer-Assisted Content Standard Assignment and Alignment
Type        : Award
NSF Org     : DUE 
Latest
Amendment
Date        : September 9,  2004  
File        : a0435339

Award Number: 0435339
Award Instr.: Standard Grant                               
Prgm Manager: R. Stephen Cunningham                   
	      DUE  DIVISION OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION     
	      EHR  DIRECT FOR EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES
Start Date  : September 15,  2004 
Expires     : August 31,  2006     (Estimated)
Expected
Total Amt.  : $                   (Estimated)
Investigator: Anne R. Diekema diekemar@syr.edu  (Principal Investigator current)
              Elizabeth D. Liddy  (Co-Principal Investigator current)
Sponsor     : Syracuse University
	      113 Bowne Hall
	      Syracuse, NY  132441200    315/443-2807

NSF Program : 7444      NATIONAL SMETE DIGITAL LIBRARY
Fld Applictn: 0116000   Human Subjects                          
              0000099   Other Applications NEC                  
Program Ref : 9178,SMET,
Abstract    :

     This project provides a mechanism for improving the ability of teachers to
     locate science and math resources that will support their standards-based
     instruction, no matter what state they are in or where a resource was
     developed. Two services for are available for NSDL collection providers and
     Pathways Projects. The first is a Computer-Assisted Standard Assignment
     recommender tool that suggests to a human cataloger 1 to 5 of the most relevant
     national content standards appropriate for a learning resource. The cataloger
     accepts, edits, or rejects these suggestions and the tool adds them to the
     resource's metadata records. These vetted assignments are learned by the system
     in order to inform future standard recommendations for increased accuracy. The
     second is a methodology and tool that automatically creates a crosswalk between
     math and science state standards and their national counterparts. This results
     in an automated mapping between state and national standards, whereby the
     national standards function as exchange standards. This mapping facility is
     then incorporated into the search capabilities of educational resource
     repositories such as NSDL so that teachers can search for resources using
     either their home state standards or the national standards. As a result,
     educational resources can be easily shared from anywhere in the country once a
     translation between state standards is facilitated. Any state standard can be
     mapped to any other state standard, while at the same providing a mapping
     between any state standard and the national standard.