standards-coverage-validator

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Validate that curriculum fully covers required standards, check depth and rigor of coverage, verify assessment alignment, and generate coverage reports for administrators. Use for comprehensive validation. Activates on "validate coverage", "standards compliance", or "coverage report".

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When & Why to Use This Skill

The Standards Coverage Validator is a specialized Claude skill designed to ensure educational curricula align perfectly with required academic standards. It automates the complex process of auditing instructional materials for depth, cognitive rigor (DOK), and assessment alignment, providing data-driven reports essential for accreditation, district audits, and administrative compliance.

Use Cases

  • Curriculum Auditing: Conduct comprehensive end-of-year validations to ensure 100% coverage of state or national standards and identify instructional gaps.
  • Program Adoption Decisions: Evaluate and compare textbooks or digital learning platforms to determine their alignment with specific educational benchmarks and rigor requirements.
  • Accreditation Support: Automatically generate the necessary standards crosswalks and evidence packages required for regional or national school accreditation reviews.
  • Administrative Reporting: Create professional executive summaries and board-ready presentations that visualize curriculum compliance and instructional health.
namestandards-coverage-validator
descriptionValidate that curriculum fully covers required standards, check depth and rigor of coverage, verify assessment alignment, and generate coverage reports for administrators. Use for comprehensive validation. Activates on "validate coverage", "standards compliance", or "coverage report".

Standards: Coverage Validator

Comprehensively validate standards coverage, depth, and assessment alignment for accountability and compliance.

When to Use

  • End-of-year curriculum validation
  • Textbook/program adoption decisions
  • Accreditation reviews
  • District curriculum audits
  • Administrator reporting
  • Board presentations

Validation Dimensions

1. Coverage Completeness

Check:

  • All required standards addressed
  • No standards omitted
  • Optional vs. required distinction

Thresholds:

  • ✓ 100% required standards
  • ⚠ 95-99% (note missing)
  • ✗ <95% (insufficient)

2. Depth of Coverage

Levels:

  • Insufficient: Mentioned only, no instruction
  • Basic: Introduced, minimal practice
  • Proficient: Taught, practiced, formative assessment
  • Comprehensive: Mastery expected, multiple assessments

Validation: Each standard meets minimum depth requirement

3. Cognitive Rigor

DOK/Bloom's Alignment:

  • Instruction matches standard's cognitive level
  • Practice at appropriate complexity
  • Assessments test required thinking

Example:

  • Standard requires "analyze" (DOK 3)
  • Instruction must go beyond recall
  • Assessment must include analysis tasks

4. Assessment Alignment

Verify:

  • Each standard has assessment items
  • Assessment difficulty matches standard
  • Sufficient items per standard
  • Varied item types

Quality Checks:

  • Clear alignment (not inferential)
  • Valid measurement
  • Reliable scoring

5. Instructional Time

Adequacy Check:

  • Sufficient time allocated
  • Matches standard complexity
  • Proportional to test weight

6. Prerequisite Coherence

Sequence Validation:

  • Prerequisites taught before dependent standards
  • Logical progression
  • Spiraling/review appropriate

Validation Report Components

Executive Summary

Key Metrics:

  • Overall coverage: X% of standards
  • Depth score: Average depth level
  • Assessment alignment: X% fully aligned
  • Critical gaps: [list if any]
  • Recommendation: Approved / Conditional / Not Approved

Detailed Standards Matrix

Standard Covered Depth DOK Match Assessed Time (min) Status
7.NS.A.1 ✓ Proficient ✓ ✓ 120 ✓ Pass
7.NS.A.2 ✓ Basic ✗ (DOK 2 needed, only DOK 1) Partial 45 ⚠ Needs Improvement

Coverage by Domain/Strand

Visualization:

  • Pie chart or bar graph
  • % coverage per strand
  • Balance assessment

Timeline Analysis

Pacing Validation:

  • Standards coverage over school year
  • Front-loaded vs. back-loaded
  • Adequate review time before tests

Assessment Blueprint Comparison

Test Alignment:

  • Curriculum emphasis vs. test emphasis
  • Over-coverage or under-coverage by domain
  • Item count adequacy

Validation Criteria

Passing Thresholds

Minimum Requirements:

  • 100% of standards addressed
  • Average depth: Proficient (3/4)
  • 95% assessment alignment
  • No critical gaps
  • Prerequisite sequence valid

Conditional Approval

Remediation Needed:

  • 95-99% standards covered (minor gaps)
  • Some depth issues (average 2.5-3)
  • 85-94% assessment alignment
  • Condition: Address gaps by [date]

Not Approved

Significant Issues:

  • <95% standards covered
  • Insufficient depth (<2.5 average)
  • <85% assessment alignment
  • Critical prerequisites missing

Administrative Reporting

Board Presentation Format

Slides Include:

  1. Executive Summary (1 slide)
  2. Coverage Overview (visual)
  3. Depth and Rigor Analysis
  4. Assessment Alignment Summary
  5. Comparison to District/State Benchmarks
  6. Recommendations

Accreditation Documentation

Required Evidence:

  • Standards crosswalk
  • Scope and sequence
  • Assessment blueprints
  • Sample assessments with alignment tags
  • Validation summary

CLI Interface

# Full validation
/standards.coverage-validator --curriculum "full-year-math-7/" --standards "CCSS-Math-7" --comprehensive-report

# Quick validation
/standards.coverage-validator --content "ela-units/" --standards "State-ELA-5" --quick-check

# Comparison validation
/standards.coverage-validator --program-a "textbook-a/" --program-b "textbook-b/" --standards "NGSS-MS-LS" --compare

# Board report generation
/standards.coverage-validator --curriculum "district-science/" --standards "NGSS-HS" --report-type "board-presentation" --output board-report.pptx

# Accreditation package
/standards.coverage-validator --all-curricula "k-12-curricula/" --standards "all-applicable" --accreditation-package --output accreditation/

Output

  • Comprehensive validation report
  • Standards coverage matrix
  • Pass/Conditional/Fail determination
  • Detailed recommendations
  • Board presentation (slides/PDF)
  • Accreditation documentation package
  • Comparison reports (if comparing programs)

Composition

Input from: All curriculum and standards skills Final validation after: /standards.gap-analysis, /standards.us-state-mapper, /curriculum.analyze-outcomes Output to: Administrative reports, compliance documentation

Exit Codes

  • 0: Validation passed
  • 1: Validation failed (critical issues)
  • 2: Conditional approval (minor issues)
  • 3: Insufficient data for validation