It's now possible to see Edthena usage stats aggregated across all groups within your organization.
Below, we walk through some example questions you can ask of the data, and, more importantly, how to answer them.
Click here for a quick overview of how Organization Stats work.
Note: You must have "License Manager" permissions within your organization.
How collaborative are coaching conversations?
Rich dialogue between and among members can be an indicator of engagement in the professional learning conversations. You can now investigate whether people are communicating back-and-forth, or if conversations are one-sided.
Here's how to interpret this stat:
- A number less than 1 reveals that, on average, no one comments on the shared videos
- A number close to 1 reveals that the average conversation is one-sided
- A number close to 2 or more reveals that the average conversation is collaborative
This data point is available on the whole-org and group-by-group basis within the Conversations data area.
How often are we giving feedback on specific professional skills?
Maybe your organization is prioritizing use of academic language in the content area. Or maybe it's how to effectively lead a discussion within the classroom. But do you know how often those important topics are being discussed within conversations?
To answer this question, you can filter Comments data to individual skills. Then, by sorting the table by "Conversations" or by "Avg comments per conversation," you can start to get a sense of the frequency for a particular topic.
Since each group is detailed, you can also spot if certain groups are not coding comments to this skill. Maybe this is a procedural gap (they need to code their comments), or maybe this highlights a trend in how coaching is happening and could be adjusted.
How much feedback are teachers receiving throughout the year?
In some organizations, it's helpful to understand the total amount of feedback received by teachers throughout the year. For example, this could be an important metric as part of investments into mentoring new teachers and ensuring that minimum thresholds for contact are being achieved. Or maybe there's a structured set of learning cycles used across the organizations. In this case, a group that's not hitting the target will easy to spot.
If feedback cycles are structured as Explorations, you can see the average for each groups as well as the average for the organization overall. "Feedback sent" indicates that the teachers requested and received feedback from the coach.
In the image above, the group with 1.5 average feedback per participant reveals that not everyone received feedback on all Explorations. Possible explanations are that not all teachers participated, or, maybe the coach didn't send the feedback to teachers even after it was requested. No matter the cause, this information enables you to visit this group to learn more about what's happening.
Do Leveled Indicators reflect teacher growth on professional skills?
If your organization is tracking teacher progress on professional skills across a period of time, it would be normal to see the scores change over time. As a result, the averages wouldn't exactly the same as the target proficiency level. With this in mind, average scores across different skills and different groups that are too similar could reveal that coaches are scoring all teachers similarly.
Check the Leveled Indicators details page to see if there are any patterns emerging in how your coaches are using this feature to provide quantitative feedback.