The Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement offers summaries and full-text Adobe Acrobat versions of research reports, some of which deal with standards and frameworks. It made several significant recommendations including one that they should be more informative, draw upon current research, and recognize the complexity involved in properly implementing standards-based frameworks. Several reports deal with assessment and, indirectly, standards. While the amount of material concerning standards and frameworks is small, the reports are also worth looking at in the own right. It seems as if every visit reveals some new article, reference work, teaching idea, framework, or classroom activity and it would be easy to spend hours mining the ENC site.
Some articles deal with standards, others with curriculum, the use of technology, and assessment.
Clicking on a title takes you to the article. Short of having an extremely extensive personal library, with subscriptions to all these journals, you cannot beat the breadth and quality of information ENC has made available here. ERIC ERIC offers a wealth of searchable resources, ranging from educational research to lesson plans, all presented in an easily useable form. The ERIC Database contains abstracts for a considerable amount of research over the past decade, some of which deals with content or performance standards. The Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation has a section on Goals and Standards , with links to various federal and ERIC documents about standards.