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The observer files a report
A national organisation sends observers to grade its own district units. Turning the paperwork into a monthly score across 23 states — what the data caught, and what it forced the party to see.
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What the smartphone actually replaced
Twenty years ago, cable television arriving in a village tracked shifts in son preference and attitudes to wife-beating. A three-generation household pilot suggests the signal has moved.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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