About Observations/Surveys

Observations/Surveys are powerful tools to gain insights and assess the gaps to make learning and development context-aware to deliver meaningful impact.

The salient features of Observations are as follows:

• Observation(s) is targeted towards an individual or an institution.
• Questionnaires are used for gathering information about the entity.
• Observations can be done with or without rubrics.
• Observations with rubrics are designed to ‘observe with predefined criteria’.
• Response to the question can be linked to the predefined criteria (rubric).
• Question formats are versatile, and evidence can be attached to the responses.
• Observation can be submitted multiple times, the same entity can be observed through multiple form submissions.

The salient features of Surveys are as follows:

• Formulate questions in various formats such as single-select or multi-select questions, date-entry questions, slider questions, and text-only or number-only question.
• Record multiple instances of the same questions and capture data for each individual entry.
• Add dependent questions to a single-select question. These questions determine the next question posed to users based on their response to the main question.
• Provide prompts such as Tips or Hints to help users to add their responses.
• Track the survey's or observation's progress using the Progress bar.
• Navigate to different pages of the questionnaire using the Question Map.
• Add remarks or additional information to the responses.
• Add evidence to support your response.

Measuring impact

Today, our Observations/Surveys capability has enabled over 6,00,000 school leaders and counting in Punjab. Observing things granularly and getting a sense of the current state allowed ShikshaLokam and Punjab Education Collective's (PEC) education leaders to co-create change in the desired direction. The capability is an open-source solution for anyone to 'Observe before they Act'.