A variety of discipline-specific professional organizations have developed standards that educators might apply in identifying instructional objectives for a classroom or school district. Three of the following are accurate statements about these standards. Which one is not necessarily true?
A) They represent the joint efforts of many experts in a particular subject area.
B) Many of them can be found on the websites of the organizations that have developed them.
C) Research has clearly and convincingly shown them to be appropriate for the cognitive capabilities of students at different ages.
D) They tend to omit important objectives outside of a particular discipline-for instance, good study habits or effective interpersonal skills.

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While many of these standards are developed by experts in the subject area, and can be found on organizational websites, not all of them have been clearly and convincingly supported by research as appropriate for students at different ages. Therefore, statement C may not necessarily be true.

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