USING RESOURCE CHECK AS A GROUP
How does it work?
- Assess your district: You and your colleagues each complete the Resource Check assessment on your own, rating your district from your own perspective. Your individual responses are confidential.
- Compare your responses to the group: Your assessment is assigned to a group, and you have access to a “group report,” which shows your answers as well as the number of people who answered the same or differently on each question, and overall.
- See results graphically: Group results are shown in easy-to-read bar graphs.
- Complete Resource Check again and again: You can take Resource Check more than once, save each instance with a different name, and assign it to a different group.
- Privacy: Your responses are confidential, so you can feel free to be honest; and you’ll get to view the anonymized, candid responses of your peers.
Why Resource Checks for Groups?
- Check for consensus across a leadership team: You can easily see if the group agrees on the district’s strengths and weaknesses, and whether your perspective differs significantly from others.
- Check for consensus among groups: Different departments or leadership groups might have very different views of what can be improved in a district. For example, the central office might think that leadership support is fine, whereas a group of principals might flag that as an issue.
Additionally, coaches, partnering organizations, and technical assistance providers can use Resource Check with the various different districts they might work with. - In your discussion, consider the following:
- Which areas do most respondents feel is a strength for the district? (these are areas where the overall score is relatively high)
- Which areas do most respondents feel is a challenge for the district? (these are areas where the overall score is relatively low)
- Which areas have the most agreement?
- Which areas have the most disagreement?
- Are there areas where most respondents answered “don’t know?”
How do I get started?
- Set up a free ERS Account
- Email Kristan Singleton , Director of Tools and Technologies with your request to form a group. We will provide logistical support on getting accounts created and share what we have learned from successful groups. To help us help you better, please tell us a little bit about how you envision using the tool as well as how many people are in the group. We will then create a group for all desired accounts.