Educational standards organisations

Overview of organisations related to educational standards and educational quality control:

Australasia

Australia

http://www.avcc.edu.au (Australian Vice-chancellors Committee)

Western Australia

http://www.tac.wa.gov.au (Training Accreditation Council)
http://www.des.wa.gov.au (Higher Education Office of the Department of Education Services)
http://www.acas.wa.edu.au (Australian Centre for Advanced Studies)

Europe

Germany

http://www.iqb.hu-berlin.de IQB (Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen)

Netherlands

http://www.minocw.nl
http://www.onderwijsinspectie.nl
http://www.citogroep.nl CITO (popular primary school test)
http://www.kwaliteitsring.nl
http://www.slo.nl SLO (Stichting Leerplan Ontwikkeling)

United Kingdom

England and Wales

http://www.qca.org.uk QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority)
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk
http://www.qaa.ac.uk (Quality Assurance Association for higher education)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk (Joint Information Systems Committee)
http://www.cetis.ac.uk (Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards)
http://www.lifelonglearninguk.org (Lifelong Learning UK is the Sector Skills Council responsible for the professional development of all those working in community learning and development; further education; higher education; libraries, archives and information services; and work-based learning)

Scotland

http://www.sqa.org.uk SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority)
http://www.scqf.org.uk SCQF (Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework)

North America

United States

http://www.ncte.org NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English)
http://standards.nctm.org NCTM (National Council Teaching Mathmatics)

Alabama

http://alex.state.al.us/browseStand.php

California

California State Board of Education Content Standards Note: due to budget problems, the state of California is forced to depend on Internet Engineering Task Force Requests for Comments and will be investigating educational standards for instructional technologies in conjunction with Open Educational Resources (at Wikiversity) and published standards such as IMS QTI, reserving enhancements for audio upload and speech synthesis. N.B. also: Math Standard pp. 54-59 may conflict with this TED Talk as of 22:22, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Florida

http://www.firn.edu/doe/menu/sss.htm

Kentucky

http://www.education.ky.gov/kde/instructional+resources/curriculum+documents+and+resources/core+content+for+assessment.htm

New Mexico

http://www.ped.state.nm.us/standards/

Pennsylvania

http://www.pde.state.pa.us PDE (Pennslyvania Department of Education)

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South Carolina

http://www.myscschools.com/offices/cso/

Texas

http://www.scotthochberg.com/taas.html TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills)

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