Mobile Assessments Made Easy
Knowledge is the first step to improving the lives in developing countries. Tangerine
helps with Early Grade Reading Assessments, Early Grade Mathematics Assessments,
and interviews with students, teachers, and principals.
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ASSESSMENTS & SURVEYS
IMPACT
Making a difference in
the field now
COUNTRIES
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LANGUAGES
ORGANIZATIONS
EFFECTIVE TOOLS
Three products,
one family.
PURPOSE
USERS
Conduct large-scale, anonymized
Track individual student learning over
Combine classroom and school -visit
assessments and surveys
time using short assessments conducted
observation data with results from pupil
throughout the school term. Measures
assessments to provide immediate
student mastery against defined learning
feedback for in-school coaching and collect
targets without needing Internet
system-level program monitoring
Teachers and support staff in classrooms
School tutors/coaches, Monitoring &
External assessors, data collection teams
Evaluation staff
The only mobile data collection tools that include timed assessments.
FEATURES
RESULTS
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Easy to use and highly adaptable online Instrument Builder requires no programming skills.
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Functions without Internet on Android handheld tablets.
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Central database allows unlimited numbers of users to easily aggregate data from multiple devices over time into one online
database.
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Nearly any language and script in the world can be rendered into an instrument.
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Android app interface is clean, user-friendly and helps ensure that data collected with Tangerine is complete and reliable.
Aggregate data available via Tangerine
Individual student data available on each
Aggregate data at school, district, and
website
table. Simple graphs and tables
regional levels available via Tangerine
website. Visualization and automated email
reports
AVAILABILITY
Available as an RTI hosted product and for
Beta version in pilot study
Beta version in pilot study
custom hosting. See Get Tangerine
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A Curated Survey
Library for the
Tangerine Community
PHASE 1:
RTI will develop a publicly available battery of instruments to reduce individual effort
spent re-creating questions and facilitate consistent data collections across projects and
countries.
1. Identify “Gold Standard” questionnaire items
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2. Standardize survey questions and response options, variable names, and
instrument metadata
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3. Associate items to country contexts, language of use, and rank of utility
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4. Prepare information about hints for assessors, sources, Institutional Review
Board approval, and pilot activities
5. Develop sets of standard questions for subtopics
BUILDING A BETTER INSTRUMENT
1. Pick a Survey
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2. Add Items
Student questionnaire
Teacher questionnaire
Teacher assessment
Head teacher questionnaire
Classroom inventory
Classroom observation
Search by country,
language, topic, grade,
source (institution)
Read matching results
Add to instrument
Mandatory items
(automatically
included)
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Date and time
School location
Consent
Anonymous respondent ID
Basic info (age, gender of respondent)
3. Add Optional Subtopics
Examples:
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Teacher training
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Teacher knowledge
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School violence/bullying
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Parental involvement
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Disabilities
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WASH (water, sanitation &
hygiene)
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Soft-skills
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Detailed book inventory
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PHASE 2:
Community-Curated Instrument Library
Borrow existing instruments and examples
Share new surveys, translations, and adaptations
Rate instruments’ utility and ease of use
Build community knowledge base
Users
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Save time by starting with an
instrument which has already
been tested and proven
effective
Contextual modifications to
library items (translations,
additional response
options, alternate
sequencing)
Group Owner
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Import instrument into group account and
assign to users
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Track and monitor instrument development
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Review/approve/reject items
• Share new and modified instruments with
community
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Provide contextual info by
completing a
standardize form
Submit items to
Group Owner for
approval
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Share experience
(effectiveness) about
data collection for
surveys
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Rate items
Knowledge bank
User-rated instruments for improved practice
Standardized contextual information
Tips for adapting instruments, training data
collections and conducting fieldwork
Stars awarded for group contributions
©2015 RTI International
HOW IT WORKS
OPTION 1:
Hosted Service
TANGERINE IS GROWING!
We are working on…
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Host Your Own Tangerine
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Tangerine is available to the public through a GNU General
Public License. You can host it on your own server and
modify its code as needed. The only requirement is you share
modified source code with the larger community.
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EF Touch. Games for assessing
executive functions (cognitive abilities)
in young children ages 3-5.
Kiwi Prints. Fingerprinting identification
option.
Inter-Rater Reliability functionality.
Double blind assessments and ability
to compare results
New interface
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Support for iOS
Contact us to start your free trial.
Get your Tangerine today.
www.tangerinecentral.org
OPTION 2:
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CONTACT:
Carmen Strigel
919.541.7306
[email protected]
RTI International is one of the world’s leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice.
©2015 RTI International