Teacher Research Toolkit
Our teacher-friendly toolkit helps educators understand the impacts that blended, self-paced, mastery-based practices have on their students. Data will NOT be shared in any way with the Modern Classrooms Project. It contains:
A start-of-year survey, to be given as close to the first day of school as possible. The goal is to understand students’ attitudes and beliefs BEFORE they learn in a Modern Classroom. Make a copy to give your students.
A mid-year / end-of-year survey, to be given once you’ve fully implemented Modern Classroom implementation, ideally during the second half of the school year (February or later, so your students are used to Modern Classroom instruction). The goal is to see what your students think and believe as a result of Modern Classrooms. Make a copy to give your students.
A pre-filled analysis tool. Simply copy and paste survey data from the surveys above into this spreadsheet, and it will automatically generate charts that show your impact. Make a copy to analyze your data.
We take student data privacy extremely seriously. Because you create your own copies of these surveys, no one but you can access any of this data unless you share it. If you do decide to use our research toolkit, be sure that you:
Have permission from your school administration, both to administer surveys to your students and to store their responses in Google Forms/Sheets.
Follow any and all school- and district-specific policies regarding surveys that are administered to students, and obtain from relevant school officials any required review or approval before taking any other steps.
Use a survey platform that your school supports or allows. Please note that the pre-filled analysis spreadsheet may not work with data collected from platforms other than Google Forms/Sheets.
Remove student names before sharing this data with anyone else. Student name is an optional field on the surveys themselves, and does not need to be copied into the pre-filled analysis spreadsheet.
Remove any other information from the free-text responses that could potentially be used to identify students before sharing the data with anyone.
Obtain permission from your school administration before sharing any results externally (if you choose to do so). Please do not share your results with the Modern Classrooms Project or anyone else outside your school until and unless your administration has approved it first.