Accuracy Meets Efficiency

DirectAlign, an advanced feature of the ExACT Standards Alignment Platform, offering publishers precise, one-to-one alignment to educational standards. Whether you are aligning content to state, grade, or subject-specific standards, DirectAlign ensures every assessment item meets the intended learning outcomes efficiently and accurately.

Unlike general alignment tools, DirectAlign delivers granular, outcome-focused alignment for each question or resource, giving publishers confidence that their assessments truly measure what they are intended to.

Alignment, Evolved

Many alignment tools focus on partial or approximate matches, leaving gaps in coverage or requiring manual adjustments. DirectAlign is different because it:

Provides exact, one-to-one matches for every item.
Integrates EdGate’s advanced technology with the EdGate Taxonomy, automatically connecting content with the most relevant standards.
Offers cross-state alignment, allowing assessment publishers to map items to equivalent standards in multiple states without duplicating work.
Supports outcome-based education, ensuring every aligned item directly reflects the learning objectives.

These solutions save time, reduce errors, and allow teams to focus on creating high-quality assessments rather than chasing alignment gaps.

From Content to Standards: How It Works

DirectAlign uses a combination of advanced technology and expert validation to deliver precise alignment:

1

Your in-house expert can ‘DirectAlign’ content items standard-by-standard within the ExACT Alignment System. (This process works best if your team is very familiar with the state standards.)

2

Using the EdGate Taxonomy of K-12 education concepts, the ExACT Alignment System provides the ability for users to attach a concept (e.g. Pythagorean theorem) to a content item after which the content aligns to the appropriate learning standards. Your publisher narrows views the narrowed down alignment results, and chooses to accept all results, or uses the DirectAlign Feature to achieve pinpoint accurate 1:1 alignment outcomes. (This process works best with teams that are more familiar with educational concepts in general, rather than individual state standards.)

Taking a closer look at option #2. If you need to align grade 8 content about the Pythagorean theorem, your publisher can tag it with the following concept: - Geometry and Measurement/Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem.

Once the concept is applied, here are some of the standards alignment results in Alabama:

Informally justify the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse.
Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points in a coordinate plane.
Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths of right triangles, including real-world applications.

The EdGate ExACT Direct Alignment System will provide the option to DirectAlign an assessment item to one of the standards above.

*Note that EdGate provides standards in machine readable format, broken down to the lowest level “child standards.”

Access Your Results

Once your content is aligned, DirectAlign provides the results in multiple convenient formats to fit your workflow:

API

Access alignment data programmatically for seamless integration with your systems

Bulk Download

Download all results in a tab-delimited format for easy processing.

ExACT Reports

Generate detailed reports in HTML, Word, Excel, or PDF formats to review and share.

Correlation User Interface (CUI) iFrame

Embed interactive alignment results directly into your platforms for quick reference.

These delivery options give your team flexibility to use the results the way that works best—whether for internal review, client reporting, or integration into other systems.

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