Advice: Competence in choosing the right measures

Context

Working together to bridge the evidence and implementation cycles involves shifting roles and developing new skills to ensure that measurement activities and questions are in service of and relevant to implementation goals and objectives.

All stakeholders need to understand the instructional problems being tackled, and how they relate to what is being implemented, what the overall goals for implementation are, and how measurement activities align with them. In addition, all stakeholders need to know if the data being used to determine what the evidence says are accurate and representative of what we are interested in measuring.

Teacher Does

Understands implementation objectives and how measures influence evidence to be able to advocate for, find, and use reliable and valid measures.

Leader/Administrator/Decision-maker Does

Understands implementation objectives and how measures influence evidence to be able to advocate for, find, and support the use of reliable and valid measures.

Researcher Does

Supports practitioners' understanding of implementation objectives and how measures influence evidence.
Finds and uses reliable and valid measures.

Funder Does

Provides opportunities for practitioners to develop the skills they need to understand implementation objectives and how measures influence evidence.
Prioritizes support for the development and use of reliable and valid measures.

Family/Developer/Community-member Does

Understands schools' specific implementation objectives and how measures influence evidence to be able to advocate for and support the use of reliable and valid measures.

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