Activity: Collect Your Data
This activity will help you identify measurement tools to help you collect data as part of a broader measurement project.
June 26, 2023
Tag: Research, Measurement, & Evaluation
Activity: Design the Logic of Your Solution
A logic model is a visual representation of a theory of action (also referred to as a series of “if-then statements”). This activity will help you to identify the relationships between resources, activities, outputs, and the intended outcomes of a program or solution.
June 26, 2023
Activity: Determine What Improvement Looks Like
Before designing a measurement plan, first think about what improvement might look like. This activity prompts you to consider what has changed, what has been improved, and how you would know.
June 26, 2023
Activity: Identify Your Stakeholders
This activity helps you to identify all of the stakeholders who could influence and/or might be impacted by the outcomes of a solution you are seeking to design.
June 26, 2023
Activity: Three Essential Questions to Guide Improvement
The questions provided in this activity can be used to guide the design of a measurable solution. Use the table in this document to organize your thinking before jumping straight into building a pilot, prototype, or program.
June 26, 2023
Edtech Grading Rubric
This grading rubric (modified from LearnPlatform’s EdTech Grading Rubric) helps collect feedback from educators around edtech tools, including background criteria such as duration and frequency of use, technical criteria such as ease of use and navigation, quality of features and content, and perceived impact on student learning and teaching effectiveness. The survey can be modified to fit different contexts, as well as collect feedback from stakeholders who are not direct educators (e.g., students, families).
June 23, 2023
Edtech Stakeholder Evaluation Survey
This survey can be used to collect feedback from school stakeholders (e.g., teachers, students, staff, families) around engagement, adoption, impact, and satisfaction around specific tools.
June 23, 2023
Digital Tool Evaluation Form from Mendon-Upton Regional School District
Mendon-Upton Regional School District created an evaluation form (using Google Forms) that educators and students can use to self-report their experience with a tool. The questions are differentiated for both roles and ask about impact, usability, engagement, and whether or not the user would recommend the tool.
In this example, the district requested feedback on Seesaw and IXL. To customize this document, district leaders can make a copy of this Google Form and change the names of the tools for which they would like feedback.
June 23, 2023
Tool: Virtual and Hybrid Learning Improvement Protocol Workbook
This protocol can be used to inform the design of a solution to help improve virtual and hybrid learning, as well as help users understand progress along the key elements of three distinct Pillars: Foundation for Equitable, Engaging, and Effective Virtual/Hybrid Learning; Pedagogy and Practices; and Relationships: Building Conditions and Connections to Personalize Learning and Increase Equity.
May 17, 2023
Student Edtech Focus Group Protocol
Cambridge Public Schools used focus groups to collect data from students around their use and engagement with specific edtech tools. This focus group protocol covers the questions that need to be asked and any needed materials, and includes a note-taking template. The focus groups were conducted by instructional technology specialists (ITS) with fifth-grade students at each elementary school.
May 4, 2023