State Standard-Setting Processes in Brief
State legislatures require a variety of processes in the adoption of education standards. This brief describes steps in these state standard-setting processes, such as review of the standards and validity evaluations. The brief also provides profiles of eight states’ standard-setting and review processes, as well as the measures used by those states to validate their standards.
This resource is valuable in its presentation of diverse states’ processes for adapting or creating new standards. For any state that is currently engaged in creating or adapting new standards, this resource can be helpful in demonstrating a wide range of approaches that other states have undertaken.