The Coaching Effectiveness AssessmentIs your coaching working? Now you can answer.
The Coaching Effectiveness Assessment measures instructional coaches, and the leaders who coach, against six essential coaching actions, using five validated tools built on ten years of peer-reviewed research and five large-scale studies at Rutgers University and Arizona State University. It turns coaching from an act of faith into something a district can see.
- 10 years
- of peer-reviewed research behind it
- 5 studies
- large-scale, at Rutgers and Arizona State
- ICF
- accredited 12-week coach certification pathway
- Rating scales
- Interaction style
- Observation record
- Performance rubrics
- Feedback reports
Coaching is a big bet. Most districts can’t see if it pays.
Coaching is one of the largest recurring investments a district makes in its teachers. Most can report how many hours were delivered. Few can say whether the coaching changed practice, or which coaches need what support. The Coaching Effectiveness Assessment answers both.
Five tools, one set of six essential coaching actions.
Each tool looks at coaching from a different angle: how effective it is, how a coach interacts, what an observer sees, how performance grows, and what feedback a coach needs next. Together they measure every coach against the same six essential coaching actions identified in the research.
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Coaching Effectiveness Rating Scales
Measure coaching effectiveness against validated research.
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Coaching Interaction Style Scale
Characterize how a coach interacts with the educators they support.
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Coaching Observation Record
Capture structured, evidence-based observations of coaching in action.
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Coaching Performance Monitoring Rubrics
Monitor coaching performance and growth over time.
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On-Demand Feedback Reports
Deliver timely, data-informed feedback to coaches and leaders.
- Who it measures
Dedicated instructional coaches, and the leaders who coach: principals and assistant principals who coach their teachers.
Built at Rutgers and Arizona State.
The Coaching Effectiveness Assessment was developed by professors at Rutgers University and Arizona State University, who spent ten years and five large-scale studies identifying what effective coaching looks like. engage2learn’s coaching was already aligned to the same research.
engage2learn was the only coaching organization we found that was already aligned to our research. We know the experts at engage2learn will be able to scale the impact of our validated assessment data insights and provide measurable results for schools.
“The coaching effectiveness assessment gives leaders the assurance that the investment of time and money in coaching aligned to the research is going to create the desired outcomes.”
An assessment that goes on to build better coaches.
The assessment is where the work starts. What it finds shapes how the coaching system is designed, how coaches are developed and certified, and how their growth is tracked, until the district owns its own bench of coaches, measured on the same assessment.
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Measure
Every coach, and every leader who coaches, assessed against the six essential coaching actions with the five tools.
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Design the system
A High-Performance Coaching System design and coaching-system review that fix the structures, roles and routines the results point to.
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Certify
An optional path to coach certification through the Data-Informed Growth (DIG) Coaching Collaborative, a 12-week program accredited by the International Coaching Federation.
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Track it
Coaching facilitated, documented and measured in GroweLab, connecting coaching actions to teacher retention and student outcomes.
“Is this just an audit of our coaches?” No. It pairs assessment with system design and a pathway to ICF-accredited certification, so it builds your coaches’ capacity as well as measuring it.
Assessing the coaching program itself? See the Coaching System AssessmentMeasured coaching is better coaching.
engage2learn is the only partner offering both validated diagnostic assessments and coaching with public ESSA evidence. What this assessment finds becomes the plan for your coaching system and the focus of the coaching our practitioners do beside yours.
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Diagnose
Every coach measured against the six essential coaching actions.
Assessments & Software - 02
Design
The coaching system redesigned around what the results show.
Planning & Design - 03
Coach
Former district practitioners work alongside your coaches, inside your schools.
Performance Improvement - 04
Connect to community
Coaches join peers in the Jim Knight Impact Network, and the cycle turns again.
Network & Events
Questions leaders ask.
What is the Coaching Effectiveness Assessment?
The Coaching Effectiveness Assessment is a suite of five validated tools that measures instructional coaches, and the leaders who coach, against six essential coaching actions. It was developed by professors at Rutgers University and Arizona State University on ten years of peer-reviewed research and five large-scale studies.
How can a district tell whether its instructional coaching is working?
Measure the coaching itself, not just the hours delivered. The Coaching Effectiveness Assessment rates each coach against six essential coaching actions using validated rating scales, an interaction style scale, a structured observation record, performance monitoring rubrics and on-demand feedback reports, and GroweLab connects those coaching actions to teacher retention and student outcomes.
What tools are in the assessment suite?
Five: the Coaching Effectiveness Rating Scales, the Coaching Interaction Style Scale, the Coaching Observation Record, the Coaching Performance Monitoring Rubrics, and On-Demand Feedback Reports.
Who does it measure?
Dedicated instructional coaches, and the leaders who coach, such as principals and assistant principals who coach their teachers.
Who developed the Coaching Effectiveness Assessment?
Professors at Rutgers University and Arizona State University developed it over ten years of peer-reviewed research and five large-scale studies. Dr. Linda Reddy of Rutgers, a research partner, found engage2learn "the only coaching organization we found that was already aligned to our research."
Is it just an audit of our coaches?
No. It pairs assessment with a High-Performance Coaching System design and review, and an optional pathway to ICF-accredited certification, so it builds capacity rather than handing out a score.
What is the DIG Coaching Collaborative?
The Data-Informed Growth (DIG) Coaching Collaborative is an optional 12-week coach certification program accredited by the International Coaching Federation. It uses the Coaching Effectiveness Assessment suite.
How is it different from the Coaching System Assessment?
The Coaching Effectiveness Assessment measures coaches and the leaders who coach. The Coaching System Assessment measures the coaching program itself, against Jim Knight’s Seven Success Factors. Many districts use both.
How do districts fund it?
Districts commonly use Title II professional-development funds, instructional-coaching and teacher-retention budgets, and school-improvement or grant funds where coaching quality is a named lever. The data also strengthens grant reporting on professional-learning effectiveness.
Stop taking coaching on faith.
Start with the Coaching Effectiveness Assessment, and know which coaching actions each coach should grow next.
