The Institute of Education Sciences has released a new guide that can help researchers and practitioners who are planning, implementing, and evaluating professional learning communities (PLCs). The guide, from Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, compiles 49 valid, reliable, and tested measures of key performance indicators of teacher PLCs.
The guide features an annotated bibliography that identifies and describes the teacher/principal-, PLC team-, and student-level indicators that can be used to assess the different dimensions of teacher PLCs. To help users choose and apply an appropriate measurement instrument, the guide also includes:
- A PLC logic model to determine which indicators may be most valuable to measure;
- A decision aid to help select a relevant instrument; and
- A profile sheet for each instrument that provides information about the instrument and how it may be accessed and used.
Read the guide at:
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/projects/project.asp?projectID=444
