You can lead a horse to water: teacher development and use of digital library resources
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Experimenting with the automatic assignment of educational standards to digital library content
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Exploring educational standard alignment: in search of 'relevance'
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Aspects of 'relevance' in the alignment of curriculum with educational standards
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Aligning digital library resources with national and state educational standards to help K-12 teachers search for relevant curriculum is an important issue in the digital library community. Aligning standards from different states promises to help teachers in one state find appropriate materials created and cataloged elsewhere. Although such alignments provide a powerful means for crosswalking standards and curriculum across states, alignment matrices are intrinsically sparse. Hence, we hypothesize that such sparseness may cause significant numbers of false negatives when used for searching curriculum. Our preliminary results confirm the false negative hypothesis, demonstrate the usefulness of term-based techniques in addressing the false negative problem, and explore ways to combine term occurrence data with standards correlations.