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DiamondTM
Diamond Audits
Curriculum audit
  • enacted curriculum
  • enacted instruction
RubyTM
Ruby curriculum analysis
Curriculum analysis
  • alignment to standards
  • levels of cognitive rigor
  • potential grade inflation
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Sapphire Observations
Classroom observation
  • classroom time usage
  • teaching strategies
  • custom issues
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Education Research

Large-scale education research is the hallmark of The Standards Company LLC. With its advanced technology and proven methods, The Standards Company LLC can perform educational research on any scale and targeted towards the needs of the education community.

Curriculum research

Few companies have performed curriculum research on the scales of The Standards Company LLC. With experience garnered from performing studies of the enacted curriculum on over 100,000 student assignments, The Standards Company LLC can overcome the tremendous logistical barriers to large-scale research studies. (more)

Instruction research

The personnel of The Standards Company LLC have logged thousands of hours in classroom observations. With the aid of advanced software technology, The Standards Company LLC can perform research on the enacted instruction to high precision. Studies are not limited geographically. (more)

Publishing activity

Accepted for publication

Gibson, L. and Walkup, J. (2009). Conceptual knowledge in the mathematics classroom. Mathematics Communicator, 33(3), 26-29.

Baughman, D. (2009). Accessing higher DOK levels using think-alouds. ShopTALK, 4(2), 6.

The Standards Company LLC. (2009). Study of the alignment of student assignments to the academic standards of the State o Nevada (Senate Bill 184, Chapter 420, Statutes of Nevada 2007). Tech rep. Legislative Counsel Bureau. January 2009.

The Standards Company LLC. (2008). Analysis of the enacted curriculum for the Oklahoma State Department of Education for the collection period February — March 2008. Tech rep. Oklahoma State Department of Education. October 2008.

Submitted for publication

Walkup, J. R. & Jones, B., Modeling achievement by measuring the enacted instruction. Submitted to Studies in Educational Evaluation, January 2009. (preprint)

Walkup, J. R., Pilipenko, J., & Davenport, D. P., Congruence function for measuring the extent of coverage of the enacted curriculum and district pacing calendars. Submitted to Applied Measurement in Education, January 2009. (preprint)

Olvera, G. W. & Walkup, J. R., Questioning strategies for teaching cognitively rigorous curricula. Submitted to Thinking Skills and Creativity, February 2009. (preprint)

Carlock, D., McGaugh, K., & Baughman, D., Depth of knowledge in the English language arts classroom. Submitted to Teaching and Teacher Education, February 2009. (preprint)

In preparation

Walkup, J. R., Jones, B. and Chavez, A. "Student Achievement as a Function of Depth of Knowledge"

Walkup, J. R., Jones., B. "Modified Walberg Model for Measuring the Enacted Curriculum"

Jones, B. and Elkins, J. "Diagrams for Depth of Knowledge"