Daniel Graf (Palau, Ministry of Education (MOE))
Daniel worked with the Ministry of Education on moving away from a paper-based teaching evaluation system which was making the information difficult to access and caused for individuals to store the information in various places. In order to meet the specific goals of the M`OE, Daniel steered away from existing solutions and created a custom software solution in Ruby on Rails and MySQL to consolidate, simplify and analyze the observation data. To achieve this, he had to focus on design, backend and integration which together resulted in a local system that can “uniformly store observation data, allow access to different employees, and provide simple analysis of the observations at the teacher and school level.”