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McLure, Felicity I.; Aldridge, Jill M. – School Leadership & Management, 2023
This systematic literature review analysed research related to education reform published between 2000 and 2020. Empirical evidence from 249 studies identified factors hindering or facilitating the long-term success of reform implementation. Eight overarching, actionable themes were found to influence success. Six themes describe requirements at…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Sustainability, Program Implementation, Success
Gust, Ran – Online Submission, 2008
Recovery of significant achievements by exemplary individuals and institutions in public education and librarianship informs our present understanding and motivates future efforts. This narrative history recounts some of the struggles and successes of a great city library when the very conception of a free, public library was still being defined.…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Public Education, Library Development, Library Facilities

New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1980
Bertram S. Brown, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, discusses conflicts between scientific and value dimensions of evaluation. He relates this conflict to: usefulness of mental health program evaluations; conduct of internal evaluations; release of findings; training; rating of reports; and planned change consultation.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Decision Making, Ethics, Evaluators
Ferdig, Richard E. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
Past and present research has provided evidence to support the claim that technologies for teaching and learning must be pedagogically sound. However, educational technologies are also part of a complex process involving the people in the implementation of the innovation. In this paper, I review existing research and explain what both of those…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Literature Reviews, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Performance Technology
Roberts, Jane M. E.; Kenney, Jane L. – 1984
Maryland's School Improvement Through Instructional Process (SITIP) program involved 24 local education agencies (LEAs) in implementing one or more research-based instructional models: Active Teaching, Mastery Learning, Student Team Teaching, and Teaching Variables. A summary is presented of: (1) descriptions of each of the instructional models;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Agents, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Lawrence, Gordon – 1981
A report is given of a comprehensive review of research on inservice education. The review process began with 6,000 abstracts and references. About 150 of the documents reported some quantitative findings. Fifty-nine studies met topic criteria and also had statistics which could be synthesized. These studies were sorted into four categories of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Research, Inservice Teacher Education, Participant Satisfaction
Cates, Carolyn S., Ed.; Ward, Spencer, Ed. – 1979
The eight papers in this book summarize discussions and recommendations by participants in a 1977 conference that focused on three topics: definitions of linking functions and roles; coordination of dissemination and linking activities; and support needs of linking agents, including options for providing support. Each of the chapters provides…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Holdcroft, Lane E. – 1978
The purpose of this paper is to trace the rise and fall of community development and to draw lessons for developing countries and donors interested in helping the rural poor. Community development is defined as a process, method, program, institution, and/or movement involving communities in the solution of problems, teaching democratic processes,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Development, Criteria

Hernandez, Mario; Hodges, Sharon – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2003
Rethinking and expanding the theory of change underlying systems of care are recommended to support development of the knowledge base for understanding what systems of care can be expected to accomplish. Three domains of knowledge are presented as necessary to understanding the relationship between systems-level change and services. (Contains…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. Louisiana Dissemination Network. – 1985
This monograph surveys the literature relating to the role of the principal as change agent and the process of educational change, and reviews those characteristics that research has found to make principals more effective and efficient change agents. The introduction identifies four relevant perspectives in the research on instructional…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Donoughue, Carol, Ed.; And Others – 1981
This book examines the achievements of teachers from all over Great Britain in furthering their professional development. Part 1 presents four case studies of school-based inservice activities. The first is a teacher-initiated inservice activity in a middle school in West Sussex. The second is an Open University student-initiated inservice…
Descriptors: Change Agents, College School Cooperation, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Deal, Terrence E.; Nutt, Samuel C. – 1979
Compiled for school administrators who must initiate or respond to external mandate for change, this guide draws on the experiences of 10 rural school districts that participated in the federally funded Experimental Schools (ES) program for perspectives that can be used in the successful management of change efforts in school districts. Organized…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Conflict Resolution
Herriott, Robert E. – 1980
Abt Associates' concluding report on its research of the federally funded Experimental Schools (ES) program identifies educational needs in rural schools, introduces the substance of the ES program, and presents the major findings of the research in terms of the dynamics of rural school districts and the design and implementation of federal…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
Australian National Training Authority, Brisbane. – 1997
Five reports present findings of research into professional development (PD) issues in vocational education and training (VET) in Australia. "Lessons Learnt: An Analysis of Findings of Recent Evaluation Reports on PD in VET" (Kate Perkins) provides an overview of issues, insights, and ideas emerging from past PD experience that may be…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1979
The activities of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) workshop on the development of a systems approach to teacher inservice education in Asian and Oceanic nations are reported. Eighteen participants from twelve countries are listed. Topics addressed by the workshop include: 1) general problems in the…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Evaluation Methods
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