Measuring Teacher Buy-In and School Commitment to Implement an Intervention Using a Teacher Survey

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Abstract

Sustainability and scale-up of education interventions depend upon strong buy-in, commitment to implement, and capacity to sustain an intervention from teachers, principals, district and state practitioners and policy makers. However, few papers use valid and reliable measures of buy-in and commitment that can be applied across interventions (Grebing et al., 2023). We present findings from psychometric analysis of teacher survey data from two different studies of distinct literacy interventions. The results contribute to the literature by empirically measuring buy-in, commitment, and capacity to sustain an intervention within the context of two rigorous evaluations which included both impact studies and scale-up implementation studies. This paper will provide evaluators with valid and reliable measures that can be administered across literacy instruction interventions.

Authors

• Mauricio Eduardo Estrada Matute, American Institutes for Research

• Michaela Gulemetova, American Institutes for Research

• Raquel C. Sanchez, American Institutes for Research

• Robyn Elkins, American Institutes for Research