College Readiness Product Development and Office of Academic Initiatives
Academic Advisory Committees
- The College Board English Framework (.pdf/242K)
- The College Board Science Framework (.pdf/129K)
- The College Board World Languages Framework (.pdf/88K)
- The College Board History Framework (.pdf/47K)
- The College Board Social Sciences Framework (.pdf/41K)
The Office of Academic Initiatives obtains guidance from standing committees in the:
Our Academic Advisory Committee members are leaders in their disciplinary fields of study who represent the full range of secondary and higher education institutions and the diversity of student populations served by College Board products/services.
Frameworks
The six Academic Advisory Committees have drafted Frameworks that aim to elaborate the philosophy, guiding principles, and standards for creating the instructional materials, assessments, and professional development products we envision for the College Board's middle and high school development initiative.
The Role of Design Frameworks:
- Frameworks provide a common language for describing the knowledge, skills, and abilities to be taught and measured in these instructional activities.
- Frameworks guide instructional design teams as they identify the complimentary sets of prior knowledge, skills, and abilities underlying successful performance in these courses—the habits of mind that, in turn, provide the basis for creating content and performance standards.
- Frameworks deepen our insights into what to teach and what we want students to learn by identifying and clarifying the particular variables underlying successful learning and achievement.
- Frameworks provide a principled approach for creating derivatives of the product line and connecting these products and services to other College Board programs. This is a culmination of increasingly enhanced understanding with respect to how course content aligns with standards of learning, the ability to design instructional activities and materials, the development and scoring assessments, and the preparation of educators.
- Frameworks permit consensus-making around the content and performance standards that are at the heart of curricula, by taking the mystery out of what is taught, what is tested, and what teachers need to know and be able to do, to promote student learning.