Development of the Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey Colorado (TLC-CO)
Prepared for the Colorado Department of Education in 2017
Augenblick, Palaich and Associates (APA) was hired on April 19, 2017 to assist CDE with the process of developing a new statewide teacher and administrator survey. The Colorado Education Initiative (CEI) also participated in the creation of the new survey. To support the survey revision, CDE developed the TLC-CO Working Group of education leaders from the state that included representatives from universities, districts, schools, and organizations that provide support to schools.
The survey creation process was led by CDE. CDE staff approved the processes used for developing the TLC-CO survey, provided guidance on the types of questions and the survey structure, and provided feedback on draft questions during the survey creation process. APA’s role was to gather and analyze information, propose survey questions, conduct think-alouds, conduct pilots (with the assistance of CEI), and maintain an ongoing record of the questions during survey development. CEI provided input from 2 their work around the state on necessary constructs for the new survey, provided input on questions, assisted with the pilots at the CEI Showcase, and assisted with recruitment and compensation of educators for the think-alouds.
The main priorities for this work as identified by CDE were to:
Develop a statewide teacher and principal survey to replace the TELL CO survey.
This TLC-CO survey should retain all of the primary constructs in the original TELL CO survey, but all questions should be substantially different from the TELL CO survey as to not infringe on the New Teacher Center’s copyrighted material.
The new survey (TLC) should not be burdensome in terms of the number of questions or time needed to complete the survey.
The primary purpose of the survey was to support discussions within the schoosl as school staff worked on their school improvement plans