Impact Measurement: The Tools
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What is impact?
Why measure your impact?
Why do your research?
Strengthening your impact measurement.
Prioritising your impact measurement.
Choosing and designing your impact measurement
tools.
What do you want to measure? What measurement tools do you
know of?
Impact Measurement: The Tools
Sarah McMorrine @tfdatagirl
Teach First Innovation Unit
2013
Senior Officer – Data & Impact
St Thomas the Apostle College, Peckham
2012- 2013
Assessment Consultant
Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton (Ark Schools)
Assistant Principal - Assessment
2010- 2012
London Academy, Edgware
2005-2010
Head of Maths
Assistant Head of Maths
Teaching Leaders ‘08
What is impact?
Impact : What would have happened if you were not there?
Outputs
20 day long sessions run.
100 pupils engaged
Outcomes
100 pupils certified first
aiders
Impact
Lives saved!
Impact
Measurement:
The Tools
Why measure
your impact?
Playpumps aimed to build 4,000 by 2010 to bring the "benefit
of clean drinking water to up to 10 million people". The concept
is simple: a merry-go-round is connected to a bore-hole. As
children play, the spinning motion pumps underground water
into a raised tank.
Children would need to "play" non-stop for 27 hours a day.
Why do your research?
A wind turbine that cost the Welsh government £48,000 to buy
has been generating an average of just £5 worth of electricity
per month. The turbine was put its Aberystwyth office, rated
excellent for sustainability, in 2009.
Before it was installed, the turbine makers warned Welsh
government contractors it would not be exposed to enough
wind where it was positioned.
Impact Measurement Strength
Longitudinal
study
Random Controlled
Trial (RCT)
Quasi-experimental
comparison cohort
Pre and post
programme surveys
Impact Measurement Priorities
“If your programme doesn’t directly do it, don’t measure it”
Sarah McMorrine 2013
Outputs
20 day long sessions run.
100 pupils engaged
Outcomes
100 pupils certified first
aiders
Impact
Lives saved!
Impact Measurement Tools
What do you want to measure?
…and what is the best way to measure it?