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10 posts in this tag, newest first.

  1. Before you evaluate a curriculum, fix the construct

    A state government commissioned an RCT of a critical thinking curriculum. The trial is the easy part. The hard question is what you are actually measuring.

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  2. What the hand-drawn map carries

    A field researcher's sketch map is useful for analysis and unpublishable as drawn. On the pipeline that removes the village without removing the geography.

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  3. The number, the testimony, and the AQI you can act on

    JanVayu now has an AI assistant. It is a tool for a kind of question the sensor cannot answer alone — and it is a quiet argument about what measurement is actually for.

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  4. The canvas suite as a practice

    On why eight free, printable, one-page frameworks add up to a way of working, not just a stack of PDFs.

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  5. The pre-mortem and the bottom row

    On the two quadrants of the Rumsfeld matrix that most programmes pretend do not exist, and the meeting that gets them onto the page.

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  6. Two five-letter frameworks for the bit before the dashboard

    On CLEAR (for the pathway) and VALID (for the indicator) — two reviewer's checklists to apply before the logframe gets signed.

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  7. Measuring joy in a classroom

    When you put art in a government school, how do you evaluate what it does to the children? The standard instruments fail. We tried anyway.

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  8. What counts as impact in edtech?

    When every edtech product defines 'impact' differently, how do funders and schools compare them? A note on building a common framework for a sector that resists one.

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  9. Notes on why the book is about measurement

    A short explanation of why we are spending the next few years writing The Measurement Trap.

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  10. When district data is all you have

    In a country where the census has not been updated since 2011, how do you estimate what is happening at the block level? A note on small-area estimation and the politics of granularity.

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