Our past two posts covered both the “why” of measuring implementation and some of the common challenges to doing so. In this third and final post, we’ll look at what is most useful to measure. Implementation measures are particular to each program and should take into account the specific actions expected of program participants: who…
In our last post, we shared four reasons why educators should be measuring implementation: here we’ll look at four common challenges to strong implementation measurement. 1. Differential definitions. What happens when different units of your program operate with different working definitions of a measure? Take tutoring, for example, in a multi-site program, where each site…
To celebrate the re-opening of our blog, I am republishing our most popular piece, originally published in 2005 – long before the movie version. Enjoy! Asked at a conference what I thought was the best book on education research I’d read recently, I was quick to answer, “Moneyball.” Moneyball? But that’s a baseball book! Well,…