Standards Library
Your school may write its outcomes in its own words. An inspector, a ministry or an exam board may use an official list of codes. The Standards library holds those official lists. You align your outcomes to them, and MarkBook shows you which official codes your teaching reaches and which it does not.
A standard is never marked. It does not carry a scale. It never appears on a report card. It answers one question: how much of an official curriculum do your own outcomes reach?
Standards, outcomes and rubrics
| Learning outcome | Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | What your school marks against | An official code you align to |
| Has a scale | Yes | No |
| Marked by teachers | Yes | Never |
| On a report | Yes | Only as coverage |
If your school assesses the official codes directly, build them as a normal framework instead. See Building a Framework.
Open the library
Configuration → Assessment → Learning outcomes, then the Standards library link at the top of the page. You need the permission Rubrics and standards to add or change anything. Anyone with access to the module can read it.
The left side lists frameworks, with a search and a filter: All frameworks or Global library. The right side shows the standards of the one you open, with filters Level, Headings / Standards, Mapped / Not mapped, a code box (for example 4.NF) and a text box.
What ships
Kinderpedia provides a global library. It is read-only: no school can change it. Your school's own frameworks are private to your school.
| Framework | Content |
|---|---|
| England National Curriculum | Full |
| EYFS — Development Matters | Full |
| Common Core State Standards — Mathematics and English Language Arts | Sample |
| Next Generation Science Standards | Sample |
| IB Primary Years Programme, Cambridge Primary, KMK Bildungsstandards | Reference only |
The tier is shown on each framework.
| Tier | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Full | Licensed for full use. |
| Sample | Sample content only. The publisher's licence does not allow the whole text. |
| Reference | The framework is listed but "ships no content". Publishers license the text to member schools only. Add the statements your school is licensed to hold, and map your outcomes to them. |
Add your own framework
- Press Add framework.
- Fill in the name, region, version and subject area.
- Press Add standard for each code, or use Import with Download template.
A file for import has one row per standard. A Parent standard code column builds the tree. Codes are unique inside a framework, so importing the same file again updates instead of duplicating.
Example file:
| Code | Title | Parent standard code |
|---|---|---|
| 4.NF | Number and operations — fractions | |
| 4.NF.A.1 | Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to (n×a)/(n×b) | 4.NF |
| 4.NF.A.2 | Compare two fractions with different numerators and denominators | 4.NF |
You can also Delete framework. Any outcome mapped to its standards loses that alignment.
Align an outcome to a standard
First, on the framework of outcomes, turn on Align to published standards (the Standards step). You can limit the choice under Standards frameworks. See Building a Framework.
Then open an outcome. It has a Mapped standards panel.
- Press Map a standard.
- Search by code or text, and choose the standard.
- Choose how they relate:
| Link | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Covers | The outcome fully covers the standard. Only this counts as full coverage. |
| Partly covers | The outcome covers part of it. It never makes a standard look met. |
| Related | Connected, but not coverage. |
| Prerequisite | The outcome must come first. |
| Enrichment | The outcome goes beyond the standard. |
One outcome can map to several standards, across several frameworks. If you map the same pair again, MarkBook edits the existing link. It does not duplicate it.
Example: your outcome "Listens to stories with increasing attention" is mapped to EYFS code CL-3-1 as Covers, and to a second code as Related.
See coverage
Configuration → Assessment → Course plans → Curriculum coverage is the school-wide report. Pick an outcomes framework, a standards framework, or both.
- Our outcomes, aligned to standards: assessable outcomes only. Headings are not something a school fails to align. It shows Directly aligned, Indirect links only and Not aligned.
- Standards reached by our outcomes: the lowest-level statements. A statement is Directly reached when an outcome Covers it. A statement with only partial or related links is Indirect, and the rest are Not reached.
A standard with no link says: "Nothing in your curriculum reaches this yet. Map an outcome to it from the Learning outcomes tree."