Date/Time: July 23, 2020 6p – 8p
Presenter: Dr. Shelby Danks
Topic: Beyond the Likert Scale: Innovations in Measuring Learning, Culture, and Systems Change
Dr Shelby Danks is a measurement theorist and evaluator with 10+ years experience on the Board of Examiners for the National Baldrige Excellence Program, Panel of Judges/Examiner for the Quality Texas Foundation, Board of Examiners for the Missouri Quality Award, Peer Reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission, and as an accreditation reviewer for AdvancED. Dr Danks is Director of Impact for Illustrative Mathematics where she leads the development of a multi-year strategy to measure and evaluate impact of professional learning and curriculum products on educators, students, and systems. She designs programs, tools, resources, and partnership approaches to build the capacity of clients to lead and transform adult learning in their contexts and serves as principal investigator for a diverse portfolio of implementation, case, and impact studies to explore relationships between educator practice and outcomes.
Dr. Danks will present:
Beyond the Likert Scale: Innovations in Measuring Learning, Culture, and Systems Change
Description: In evaluating learning, culture, and systems change, we often rely on surveys that use Likert and frequency scales to measure a variety of attributes. While such items are “easy” to design and load into sophisticated survey and reporting tools, there are many drawbacks that limit their usefulness in evaluation and impede decision-making. In this session, we will rethink the Likert-scale item design and explore three alternative item types that enable us to measure key indicators of learning, culture, and systems that better tell the story of transformation.
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