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Title
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Revisiting the Purposes of Practical Measurement for Improvement: Learning from the BTEN Measurement System
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Abstract/Description
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For the past three years, the participants of Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network (BTEN) have sought to build the type of integrated system of measurement described in Practical Measurement that is so often lacking in our educational systems—one that hews closely to the processes occurring at the ground level of schools, and that supports the day-to-day efforts of practitioners to improve their work. The BTEN measurement system, designed to support the improvement of processes by which new teachers receive feedback on their instructional practice from school leaders, consists of varying grain sizes of measures to support and spur improvement efforts. The measurement system spans the conceptual space from the micro-level process being improved to outcomes of this process to the ultimate aim of the effort, teacher development and retention. As a result of the experiences gained through using measures in BTEN, we can take next steps with the ideas originally discussed in Practical Measurement. One of these ideas concerns the purposes of measurement in the improvement context, which we have revisited, augmented, and reorganized, and now propose anew. Measures in the improvement context are used for: Learning About Your System, Priority Setting, Testing the Practical Theory of Improvement, Tailoring Interventions to Individual Participants’ Needs, and Developing Social and Psychological Stances Necessary for Improvement
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Date
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2014
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In publication
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Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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Language
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en
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Open access/full-text available
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No
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Peer reviewed
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No
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Citation
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Takahashi, S. (2014, August 21). Revisiting the Purposes of Practical Measurement for Improvement: Learning from the BTEN Measurement System. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/blog/revisiting-purposes-practical-measurement-improvement-learning-bten-measurement-system/
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