The Vocabulary
Get To Know The Standard
Four K-12 Subject Areas

ELA & LITERACY

MATH

SCIENCE

SOCIAL STUDIES
Understanding the Core Vocabulary Blocks
The GBLxAPI vocabulary hierarchy for K-12 education is designed for worldwide use while also allowing for standards (ex. Common Core) to be incorporated into GBLxAPI statements. The vocabulary includes seven major types: Domain, Subdomain, Skill, Focus, Topic, Action and Grade. These form the building blocks for including context based activity URIs describing specific learning experiences that can persist across multiple vendor educational products.
The core vocabulary types were designed based on research of exisiting standards (Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, C3 Framework), interviews with K-12 stakeholders (developers, researchers, educators, administrators), relevant past research efforts and current industry practices. This resulted in core vocabulary types that could be used across English language arts and literacy, math, science and social studies. This new vocabulary structure provides continuity across subject areas with room to include others in the future.
GBLxAPI statements include xAPI vocabularies that have already been contributed to by the xAPI community and can be found at the the publishing server here. This includes the serious game profile that provides vocabulary for game-based learning. Explore the GBLxAPI vocabulary with hundreds of new permanent URIs primarily for context in statements.

The Vocabulary Types
ELA Literacy Example: Writing
Math Example: Counting and Cardinality
Science Example: Energy
Social Studies Example: Civics