Tripod survey assessments

The Tripod Project aims to strengthen content, pedagogy, and relationships in ways that raise achievement for all students, while narrowing achievement gaps between racial and ethnic groups.

Developed and refined over the past ten years, Tripod surveys and analysis methods have helped more than 300,000 students communicate about their classroom experiences. Tripod services comprise a well-designed, classroom-level data collection, analysis and reporting system.

Tripod assessments have been used in hundreds of schools and thousands of classrooms in the U.S., Canada and China, providing insights about teaching effectiveness and the determinants of student performance. The surveys measure multiple domains of teaching practice and student engagement.

They comprise:
 

• Student surveys on classroom conditions, tailored for grade levels K-2, 3-5 and 6-12
• Teacher surveys focused on pedagogy, teacher-student relations, and working conditions
• Parent surveys measuring home-school relations and parenting practices

Increasingly schools are utilizing our online tools which enables students to complete the surveys online; which takes the average class less than 30 minutes to complete.

Expanding Beyond Observations and Test Scores

Classroom observations have often been the primary or even the sole method of acquiring teacher-specific information about K-12 instruction. But no observer, no matter how well trained, has more first-hand experience in any particular classroom than the students. Tripod student questionnaires are designed to capture key dimensions of classroom life and teaching practice as students experience them. Tripod surveys provide reliable, detailed and validated insights on teaching and learning in any classroom, including classrooms not tested with standardized exams.

When requested, Tripod researchers can provide “value-added” analyses to demonstrate how student responses predict year-to-year learning gains as measured by standardized test scores, thus demystifying an important consideration in teaching effectiveness.

Student survey responses are reported out to clients according to Tripod "quality values" across multiple dimensions. Quality scores are available at the classroom, school and district levels. Findings can inform discussions about school quality and whole-school priorities, and give a fresh new focus to teacher professional development and student engagement projects.

The Tripod Project is an integral part of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

For more information about the Tripod Project, visit www.tripodproject.org. or download Tripod Assessment Flyer.

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