Standards Alignment and Curriculum Mapping
Pubrica maps educational content to Common Core, NGSS, state and national standards for publishers preparing for adoptions, bids and multi-state sales. Our curriculum specialists read each standard for what it requires a learner to do, grade the strength of every match as full, partial or supporting, and report the standards your content does not cover. You receive a correlation document for adoption reviewers, a gap report for your editorial team and a data export, including CASE format where your platform can use it.
- Matched to what each standard requires: a standard states what a learner must be able to do, so matching on keywords or topic labels is not sufficient
- Match strength graded: full, partial or supporting, so that reviewers can see how closely the content meets each standard
- Gap report, which shows the standards your content does not cover so that you can decide whether to write to them
- Mapped to the framework the buyer uses: Common Core, NGSS, individual state standards or a national curriculum
- Delivered as a correlation document and as data, including CASE-format exchange where your platform can use it
Content mapped to the frameworkIncluded
Match strength gradedIncluded
Gap reportIncluded
Correlation document and data exportIncluded
Adoption decisionsMade by the state or district
Content → read → matched → graded → correlation
- Content read against the full standard
- Match strength graded consistently
- Gaps reported in full
- Mapped to the framework the buyer uses
- Delivered as document and as data
Deliverables
Four Components of Every Standards Correlation
Every correlation covers four components. What each standard requires a learner to do determines what counts as a match.
From the mappingContent mentions photosynthesis, so it matches the standard.The standard requires constructing an explanation from evidence, but the content presents the process and asks for recall. Graded as supporting rather than full, with a note on what an activity would need to include to reach a full match.
From the correlationA correlation that claims full alignment to every standard receives the closest scrutiny from curriculum specialists and is rarely accepted.
From the gap reportThe gap report is often the most commercially useful output. Knowing that you cover 83 of 94 standards, and which eleven are missing, gives your editorial team a plan.
From the deliveryA correlation held only as a PDF must be re-keyed for every platform and revision, whereas data can be updated directly.
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Compliance and Standards
Curriculum Frameworks for Standards Alignment
The framework the buyer uses takes precedence. These are the frameworks most often requested.
Common Core State Standards (and state variants)
The English language arts and mathematics standards, together with the state adaptations whose differences affect a correlation.
Next Generation Science Standards (practices, crosscutting concepts, core ideas)
Three-dimensional standards in which each performance expectation combines a practice, a concept and a disciplinary idea, so keyword matching is not sufficient.
Competency and standards exchange (CASE format)
The machine-readable format for standards and correlations, which allows a platform to use alignment data directly rather than display a PDF.
Quality management (cert. H3CR9TCU20251212INDQM10N)
Our certified system for briefing, performing, reviewing and releasing project work.
Responsible Use of AI
Our Approach to AI Use and Disclosure
AI tools support specific, checkable tasks. Editorial judgement, final wording and sign-off remain with Pubrica subject specialists.
Why We Do Not Publish an AI Accuracy Figure
Accuracy figures for AI tools are usually reported by the companies that sell them.
Pubrica therefore does not quote a self-generated accuracy figure, because it would carry the same conflict of interest. Instead, we tell you which tool was used on your project, at which stage, and what a specialist changed afterwards.
Our Process
How Our Standards Alignment Process Works
We begin by reading the standards in full, because most weak correlations result from matching on topic labels.
Framework and scope
We confirm the framework, grades and subjects, and whether state variants are in scope, because variants differ more than their shared name suggests.
Analysing the standards
We establish what each standard requires a learner to do, including the practice and the cognitive level, rather than relying on its topic label.
Mapping and grading
We match content to standards, grade the strength of each match and record a specific content location as evidence for every match.
Correlation and gap report
We produce the correlation document for reviewers, the data export for platforms and the gap report for your editorial team.
Our Experts
Your Standards Alignment Team
A named team of subject specialists stays with your project from scoping to delivery. Your project coordinator introduces each team member by name before work begins.
Reviews the scientific content for accuracy and confirms that each conclusion is supported by the evidence. Each expert is matched to your field.
Reviews content for accuracy, pedagogy and conformance with the applicable curriculum, assessment or accessibility standard.
Checks the finished work independently against the agreed scope and the applicable checklist. Findings are logged and resolved before delivery.
Manages the timeline, keeps you informed at each stage and coordinates the team so that questions are answered and deadlines are met.
Packages
Standards Alignment Packages
Pricing depends on content volume, the number of frameworks and the number of state variants in scope.
Single framework
For publishers preparing for an adoption or a bid
Quoted per projectBased on content volume
Delivery By scope
- ✓Standards read and analysed
- ✓Content mapped with evidence locations
- ✓Match strength graded
- ✓Gap report for your editorial team
- ✓Correlation document and data export
The gap report is often the output your editorial team uses most.
Deliverables Request a quoteMultiple frameworks
For programmes sold across several states or countries
Quoted per projectBased on the number of frameworks and variants
Delivery By scope
- ✓Mapping across several frameworks
- ✓State variants treated as separate correlations
- ✓Shared evidence base across frameworks
- ✓Consistent grading throughout
- ✓Data export per framework
One analysis of the content serves every framework, so each additional correlation costs considerably less than the first.
Deliverables Request a quoteSend one unit and the standards you want to claim, and we will map it free of charge. The sample shows how our grading compares with your own.
FAQs
Standards Alignment FAQs
If your question is not listed here, ask an expert. No quote is required.
Standards describe what a learner must be able to do rather than which topics appear. Content that mentions a topic without asking the learner to perform the skill does not meet the standard.
This is especially clear in NGSS, where a performance expectation combines a practice, a crosscutting concept and a disciplinary idea. Content can include the idea without requiring any of the practice.
Yes. Grading partial matches accurately strengthens the document, because a correlation that claims full alignment to every standard receives the closest scrutiny.
Reviewers are experienced. A document with graded matches and acknowledged gaps is more credible than one that marks every standard as fully met.
Yes. Each state variant should be treated as a separate correlation, because state adaptations of shared frameworks often differ in substantive ways.
One analysis of the content serves all variants, so additional frameworks cost considerably less than the first.
You receive a correlation document for reviewers and machine-readable data for your platform, including CASE-format exchange where your systems support it.
A correlation held only as a PDF must be re-keyed for every platform and revision, whereas data can be updated directly.
Related Services
Related Curriculum and Assessment Services
Standards alignment connects your content to the framework and to the assessment.
1CONTENT DEVELOPMENTcontent to be mapped
Educational content developmentContent developed to defined learning objectives. Learning design and pedagogyCourse structure and assessment strategy.2ASSESSMENTmeasuring the standard
Psychometric servicesItem analysis, standard setting and equating. Assessment and exam reviewReview of item quality and alignment.3DELIVERYplatforms and accessibility
SCORM and xAPI conversionContent packaged and tested for your platform. Accessibility complianceWCAG 2.2 conformance across content.Request a Free Standards Mapping of One Unit
We will map one unit free of charge, so that you can compare our grading with your own before commissioning a full programme.