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Nutter, Ronald E.; And Others – Planning and Changing, 1982
Describes a model, based on the "levels of use" concept, for evaluating individualized education program (IEP) implementation under Public Law 94-142. The model includes three levels: awareness, implementation mechanics, and "evolution" or realization of goals. The model is applied to 30 IEPs in a Florida school district. (RW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Individualized Education Programs, Models
Rutherford, William L. – 1978
Focusing on the use of the interview in the Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations (PAEI) Project, this paper reports on the appropriateness of the interview as a research tool in change research and the types of information appropriate to its use. In this project, interviews are used to identify what an individual is doing, has done, or…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews
Dominguez, Domingo; And Others – 1980
An approach to designing diagnostic/prescriptive staff development programs for bilingual education, in which bilingual education is viewed as an innovation in the process of change, was explored. The aims were to: provide a method for defining bilingual programs in progress and determining the degree of implementation; determine teacher concerns;…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation

Nielsen, Lore A.; Turner, Susan Douglas – Evaluation Review, 1985
This article presents a discussion of field utilization of staff development activities in the context of three separate training programs. Specifically, classroom implementation of knowledge and skills gained by participants in their training sessions was assessed via the Levels of Use (LoU) interview system. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization
Hall, Gene E. – 1977
Researchers are becoming increasingly aware of context variables in interpreting research findings. The Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations (PAEI) Project at the Texas Research and Development Center for Teacher Education has been attempting to identify and conceptualize important research-based and clinical-based context variables. An…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Educational Innovation
Rutherford, William L. – 1981
A research investigation on how teachers actually implement team teaching focused upon individual teachers and how they used the innovation. The research was based on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model. The model proposes eight Levels of Use and common to all these Levels are seven categories that represent behaviors a user at any level might be…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Change Agents, Cooperative Planning