Program and State

Interim Activity A: Program Improvement Decision Points: Using Stakeholder Assessments to Identify Strengths and Needs

Due: November 17, 2016 Name:

Program and State:

Important Notes

·  Download the electronic form of Interim Activity A from the LEA library and save it to your computer. You can access the library directly at http://lea.clee.utk.edu/libraries/participants/index.htm

·  Type your responses into the electronic file and save it to your computer.

·  When saving this document to upload to your electronic portfolio, save the document as (First initial last name Interim A). For example, my name is Stacey Wright so I would save my document as “SWright Interim A.”

·  As you prepare your responses, make sure that you have addressed each of the items in the checklist. Each item must be adequately covered to receive credit for the activity.

·  If you are in participating in LEA with other colleagues from your program, you are encouraged to collaborate on the activity. However, each of you must compose and submit your own responses -- in other words, no cutting and pasting identical responses.

1. Select and administer a stakeholder assessment

1.  Which stakeholder assessment did you select? (Mark one)

Program Self-Assessment / Teacher Self Assessment / Local Manager Self-Assessment
Student Focus Group / Student Questionnaire / Partner SurveyPartner Focus Group

2.  Who did you engage in adapting or refining the stakeholder assessment?

Checklist Response
1.  I identified the number of staff on the workgroup.
2.  I described the positions of the staff on the workgroup.
3.  I explained how the workgroup members are representative of my staff and why I selected them to participate.

3.  How did the adaptation/refinement process work, and were you satisfied with the process and the result?

Checklist Response
1.  I described how I explained the overall program improvement process to the workgroup members (stakeholder assessments, research, and data).
2.  I described how the workgroup members participated in adapting the stakeholder assessment.
3.  I have included my reflections on how the adaptation/ refinement process worked.

4.  Briefly describe the process you used to administer the adapted stakeholder assessment. Include the number of people who were asked to participate, the number of respondents, access procedure (hard copy, online, electronic file, etc.), and other relevant information.

Checklist / Response
1. / I included the
number of people who
were asked to
participate.
2. / I included the
number of actual
respondents, which
represented at least a
20% return rate.
3. / I described how the
stakeholder assessment
was administered (hard
copy, online, etc.).

2. Engage the workgroup to review the results; clarify and prioritize needs.

1.  What staff did you engage in reviewing the results of the stakeholder assessment and clarifying and prioritizing needs?

Checklist Response
1. I included a description of the staff who reviewed the results of the stakeholder assessment. (Indicate whether this was the initial workgroup, a subset, or a different group of individuals).

2.  Briefly describe how that process worked.

Checklist Response
1. I described the process we used to prioritize our top three needs.

3.  What were the top three needs that were identified through the stakeholder assessment?

Checklist / Response
1. / I have listed the top three needs identified from the stakeholder assessment.

4.  Did those needs (or any of the other needs from the stakeholder assessment findings) surprise you? Why?

Checklist Response
1.  I have identified any surprises and explained why they were a surprise.
2.  If there were no surprises, I have described why.

Review and reflections on the Interim Activity

1.  Reflect upon Suroweki’s Wisdom of Crowds:

Checklist / Response
1.
2.
3.
4. / I have described what Surowiecki means when he says crowds are “information minus error.”
I described what Surowiecki means when he says crowds are smarter and make better decisions than individuals.
What are the problems or obstacles that groups face and must overcome if a group is to act with intelligence?
Which of the anecdotes in the book did you find most intriguing?

2.  What did you learn from this interim activity that had the most impact on you?

Post your responses in your electronic portfolio by the designated due date.

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