Identify Yourself
Practical
Measurement
for Improvement
2. Identify Yourself
How will you use a practical measure?
Depending on your role, you might need practical measurement for different purposes, and hence focus on different characteristics.
HUB Member
To test my TOI and processes for consolidating the learning at local sites and the field
Foci:
- Test your theory of improvement
- Understand if your change is an improvement
- Understanding variation in your network
Elements of Practical Measures
- PMs designed so other HUB members can be easily trained in their development, use and applicability
- Should be summative; uniform measures apply to all HUB members
- Emphasis on process formality to assure neutrality and objectivity
- School, district leaders and directors could be primary users
Improvement Practitioner
To understand if my change is an improvement (measure of fluency)
Foci:
- Test your theory of improvement
- Understand if your change is an improvement
- Serve as a form of feedback
Elements of Practical Measures
- Should have formative value and signal actionable changes
- Data shared in a safe, low stakes environment
- Educators, mentors/coaches could be primary users
PRACTICAL MEASURE EX -2
Financial Aid Application Completion
BLOG
Practical measures aren’t necessarily about collecting more data or designing something totally new. Most school systems have more data than they know what to do with. Instead, what if we took…
TECHNICAL PAPER
The Financial Aid Application Completion Measure is used as a driver measure to monitor shifts in financial access, which is one of the three drivers included in the CARPE College Access Network’s…
Practical Measurement Research Briefs
Like continuous improvement, the development and use of practical measurement is a journey. It is rarely linear and often comes with opportunities and challenges. Check out these stories of improvers designing, iterating, and leveraging practical measures to create change in the system. Get ready to be inspired by their experience and lessons learned.
RESEARCH BRIEF
Developing Exit Tickets in an Improvement Network
Ms. Johnson, an English teacher at an urban middle school, was concerned that her students were not doing as well in her class as they could be. Her district had recently…
RESEARCH BRIEF
Case Study of ORF as Practical Measure Brief
In this post we describe the identification and use of Oral Reading Fluency (ORF), a common and widely used Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) measure, as a…
Additional Resources
ARTICLES
Evidence for Improvement: An Integrated Analytic Approach for Supporting Networks in Education
Measurement for Improvement in Education
Branching Out – Use Measurement Trees to Determine Whether your Improvement Efforts are Paying Off
Practical Measurement for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom: A Toolkit for Educators