The Book
If you know the process to measure something, you can measure anything, and in You Can Measure Anything, Dr. Nicole Alioto will share her Diamond Definition™ process so you can get the best data for the best insights. This book is a guide to getting clear before collecting data so measurements are accurate, reflecting what you want and need to know.
INSIDE THE BOOK
Some concepts just seem too intangible. Until they're not.
How can you determine if you are achieving goals related to ideas like engagement, belonging, or transparency if you are not sure how to define, let alone measure them? Do you leave these goals out of your strategic conversations because they're too hard to measure?
The good news is… You Can Measure Anything!
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Engage your school community
in building clarity and shared understanding of your institution's direction.
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Use existing research that works for you
not against your goals, so prior data accelerate progress instead of impeding it.
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Translate intangible concepts
into what they look like at the classroom, program, and institutional levels, so you can connect them to clearly defined, measurable behaviors.
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Prevent goal drift
measure progress with clarity, and build a framework that carries you through setbacks to sustainable success.
THE METHOD · DIAMOND DEFINITION™
The 4-step Diamond Definition™ Process. Before you collect a single data point.
Download the Diamond Definition Worksheet →
You Can Measure Anything is built around our method, the Diamond Definition™ — a four-step process for turning the outcomes you care about most into the outcomes you can actually measure. It's the definitional work that must happen before any data collection can mean anything.
Think of it like hiring. Before you read a résumé, you write the job description. Before you collect survey responses, you define what you're measuring. The Diamond Definition™ is how that gets done — with your community, in your context.
Step 1
Clarify
Build a shared working definition with input from your community.
Step 3
Capture
Identify what the concept looks like in observable behaviors.
Step 2
Compare
Research how the construct has been defined and measured elsewhere.
Step 4
Communicate
Formalize the definition so that everyone is working from the same understanding.
Step 1
Clarify
Build a shared working definition with input from your community.
Step 2
Compare
Research how the construct has been defined and measured elsewhere.
Step 3
Capture
Identify what the concept looks like in observable behaviors.
Step 4
Communicate
Formalize the definition so that everyone is working from the same understanding.