I also know that benchmarks are the developmental steps to reach Standards. Content Standards describe what a student should know . Some content areas, such as history, use content standards. Others, such as science, use performance standards. Math uses both types of standards.
Benchmarks are developmentally appropriate subcomponents of standards.
They state the knowledge and skills to be acquired by the end of that grade or group of grades. There are two types of benchmarks, declarative and procedural. Declarative benchmarks -information based. Some content areas use declarative benchmarks, some use procedural benchmarks, and some use a combination of both. Our benchmarks will include both declarative and procedural benchmarks.