Improving Education: Benchmarking Consortium Studies
Your chance to compare your district to others & improve

To help every child learn, all school districts must improve. By spending money wisely, efficient and effective districts can allocate more money to the students and impact the children. How can your school district improve?

The answer lies in benchmarking or comparing your district’s performance to others. Benchmarking highlights great processes and performance so others can adopt the practices.

Nonprofit APQC and school districts nationwide are now studying:

Participate in this research. Why?
Visit and speak with nationally recognized districts and experts. APQC’s proven approach to research ensures participants gain research findings that can be applied to their home district… to make real, lasting change.

Learn how to improve your district’s core operations (such as Finance and Accounting) by seeing how top-performing districts run these processes. Make your district run optimally and save money. Better yet, invest the money back into resources that impact students and teachers.

Get Started Now.
For more information or to enroll in this research, contact APQC’s Susan Sellier at 713-685-4602. Site visits and Web casts are occurring now.

Costs

  • $7,500 to participate in one study,
  • $6,500 per study to participate in two studies, or
  • $6,000 per study to participate in three studies.

Fees do not include travel expenses associated with participation in these studies. From kickoff to conclusion, each study will last four to six months.

APQC's Research Method
Quality, actionable information. That’s what your organization reaps with APQC’s research methodology.

APQC's Benchmarking Consortium Methodology

Study Components and Steps
Kickoff Meeting
Often conducted virtually, the kickoff meeting allows participants to select the organizations to research from a list of screened, potential best–practice organizations. Participants refine data collection tools and review the site–visit guidelines.

Data Collection
APQC’s experts collect qualitative and quantitative data through detailed, process metric surveys. Case studies are generated from the site visits.

Networking and Learning
Virtual and face–to–face site visits, Web casts, and a community of practice offer research participants numerous opportunities and channels for networking, gleaning new ideas and discussing the research.

Knowledge Transfer Session (KTS)
Key study findings are distributed at the KTS in Houston. Participants will receive their customized final reports, case studies and action–planning assistance.