Inside Our Mind

In each episode of the Inside Our MIND podcast, we take a look at issues and challenges facing education that we are working to address through research, technology and strategic initiatives.In our latest episode, MIND’s Chief Data Science Officer Andrew Coulson returns for the latest chapter of our ongoing conversations about edtech evaluation and implementation. Andrew and Brian discuss the concept of attendance as it relates to edtech programs like ST Math. Andrew explains how attendance connects to our ST Math Theory of Change, and how establishing consistent attendance impacts students time and progress on the program.Topics Covered in the Podcast:0:45 Intro6:30 Theories of change and the "missing middle"8:30 Attendance as a lens for evaluating implementation 15:00 Data on attendance and impact on time on program  19:00 How we identified attendance as a metric22:30 Applicability of attendance to other programsThanks for listening to the show! Please leave us a review on iTunes, Google Play, Spreaker or w