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Developing outcomes-based contracts enabled districts to engage in collaborative, data-driven decision-making processes to select populations, outcomes, and pricing.

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 3 studies · 3 qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2026 · checked against its sources 2026-10-09 (automated, 3 of 3 entries) · not reviewed by a person

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q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q2 i? Districts in the first edtech OBC cohort reported meaningful partnerships with providers that supported joint contract development. → f1-partnership q2 i? All districts in the cohort focused their contracts on students needing additional support, using data such as state assessment results to define the target population. → f1-population q2 i? Districts struggled to select payment-outcome assessments and to identify baseline data, lacking cross-department infrastructure for outcomes definition. → f1-outcomes-challenge

Evidence

f1-partnership

Noakes, S., Shell, A., & Vollavanh, A. (2026, March). Instructional coherence and shared responsibilities: OBC's impact on EdTech procurement. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/288

q2 · i? · qualitative · r?

Qualitative interview and observation study of the first five-district edtech OBC cohort. Districts described joint contract creation; one leader said, "We sat with the edtech vendor from day one."

"Overall, districts reported meaningful partnerships with their providers that supported joint contract development"

f1-population

Noakes, S., Shell, A., & Vollavanh, A. (2026, March). Instructional coherence and shared responsibilities: OBC's impact on EdTech procurement. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/288

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Interview-based finding on population decisions across the cohort; Table 3 lists each district's student population, grades, and eligibility criteria such as emergent bilingual status or below-percentile literacy scores.

"All of the districts in this cohort focused their contracts on students who needed additional support, either because they performed below average or they were emergent language learners"

f1-outcomes-challenge

Noakes, S., Shell, A., & Vollavanh, A. (2026, March). Instructional coherence and shared responsibilities: OBC's impact on EdTech procurement. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/288

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Interview finding on outcomes selection; the report notes assessment selection "required a new internal process" and that most districts ultimately selected state assessments (Table 4).

"Many districts struggled with the first step of outcomes decision-making: selecting the assessment they would use to evaluate payment outcomes"

Discussion

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Field Value
type claim
id obc-contract-development-collaborative-data-driven-decisions
title Developing outcomes-based contracts enabled districts to engage in collaborative, data-driven decision-making processes to select populations, outcomes, and pricing.
description Developing outcomes-based contracts enabled districts to engage in collaborative, data-driven decision-making processes to select populations, outcomes, and pricing.
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2026
source_checked 2026-10-09
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-09
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sources 3 — f1-partnership, f1-population, f1-outcomes-challenge

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