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The Instrument Answered What It Was Asked

Five Years of the School of Continuous Improvement Tracing What Happens When an Instrument Built for One Question Is Quietly Asked a Second

The School of Continuous Improvement's Impact Report 2021-2026 follows five years of instruments --- a pool turnstile, a noise-complaint microphone, a smart smoke alarm --- quietly pressed into service for questions they were never validated to answer, and the public secondary-use register the School built to track the gap between the two.

Authors Ingeborg Nwachukwu , Sten Okwuosa , Thandiwe Solberg , Joost Nwosu
School School of Continuous Improvement
Output type Impact report
Funding Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Auditing Whose Personal Best Still Sits on a Junior Swim Squad's Results Board ( $284,913) Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Reconciling a Community Hall's Key Register Before Nobody Can Say Who Holds One ( $274,158)
Published
DOI 10.5555/slop.x4yx6z
Pages 12
Version 1.0
Licence CC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_x4yx6z,
  author       = {Ingeborg Nwachukwu and Sten Okwuosa and Thandiwe Solberg and Joost Nwosu},
  title        = {The Instrument Answered What It Was Asked: Five Years of the School of Continuous Improvement Tracing What Happens When an Instrument Built for One Question Is Quietly Asked a Second},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.x4yx6z},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-impact-instruments-built-to-x4yx6z/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Impact report},
}