This resource provides a brief introduction to the impact-effort chart, a tool used in design and continuous improvement to help prioritize tasks or initiatives based on their potential impact and the effort required to implement them.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource provides a brief introduction to user personas, a tool used in design and continuous improvement that involves creating fictional representations (based on real user research) of different types of users that help to understand their needs, behaviors, and motivations.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This summary documents the initial collaboration and reported insights of the individual institutions and the NIC as a whole. As the institutions implement their programs, gain new insights, and test improvements, subsequent summary reports will be made available as open education resources on the Perkins Grantee Hub at OERTX.higered.texas.gov.
Material Type: Case Study
This resource provides a brief introduction to driver diagrams, a tool used in design and continuous improvement to help identify and organize the key drivers or factors that influence a desired outcome or goal. It includes an editable PowerPoint slide that serves as driver diagram template and example.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource provides a brief introduction to the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle, a tool used in design and continuous improvement that involves planning a change, implementing it on a small scale, studying the results, and acting on what was learned to refine or expand the change.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource provides a brief introduction to process mapping, a tool used in design and continuous improvement that involves visually representing the steps, activities, inputs, and outputs of a process or workflow. It includes an editable PowerPoint slide that serves as driver diagram template and example.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource provides a brief introduction to the theory-in-practice map, a tool used in design and continuous improvement that serves as a framework, outlining the steps involved in implementing an intervention and maps out potential client/user responses at each stage.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource provides a brief introduction to user journey maps, a tool used in design and continuous improvement that visually represents the steps, interactions, and experiences that an individual goes through when engaging with a specific service or intervention. Its purpose is to help implementers empathize with their user's experiences and pain points.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource provides a brief introduction to the fishbone diagram, a tool used in design and continuous improvement to identify and explore the possible causes of a problem or an outcome.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This research brief provides an overview of insights and findings from the full version of "Overcoming Obstacles" available here. The brief and the full report describe success outcomes among Perkins-defined special population community college students in Texas.
Material Type: Reading
This research from the Texas Insights Accelerator describes success outcomes among Perkins-defined special population community college students in Texas.
Material Type: Reading
