Measurement Instruments for Assessing the Performance of Professional Learning Communities

Posted by Mid-Atlantic Regional Education Laboratory on September 19, 2016

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Measurement Instruments for Assessing the Performance of Professional Learning Communities

Audience: Researchers, practitioners, and education professionals who are planning, implementing, or evaluating professional learning communities

Features:

• 49 relevant instruments (31 quantitative and 18 qualitative)
• An annotated bibliography that identifies and describes the indicators at the teacher/principal, PLC team, and student levels that can be used to assess different dimensions of teacher PLCs
• A PLC logic model to determine which indicators may be most valuable to measure
• A decision aid to help select a relevant instrument
• A profile sheet that provides information about the instrument and how it can be accessed and used

Learn more about REL Mid-Atlantic’s Professional Learning Research Alliance and download our related publication Can Online Learning Communities Achieve the Goals of Traditional Professional Learning Communities? What the Literature Says.

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