Practical
Measurement
for Improvement

5. Try It Out

Test your measure

Once you’ve found something or created something, try it out.

Do it with one teacher, one class, one office
Do it once
See what happens

I tried using my measure. Now what?
Try it again, using improvement principles to see what needs to change (adopt, adapt, abandon)

Once you’ve done all this, it’s time to move onto your next driver and start the process all over again—but this time you know more of what to expect.

Resource Library

PRACTICAL MEASURE EX -5

SIMPL OR

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A key characteristic of practical measures is that they should be minimally burdensome and relatively easy and quick to use. However, whether a measure is seen as “practical” depends…

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TECHNICAL PAPER

The SIMPL OR app is used to support multiple improvement efforts with a common aim to increase practice-readiness among surgery trainees. When it is used as a measure for the aim of “every…

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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…

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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…

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