This explanatory mixed methods study aimed to determine what concerns teachers and administrators have during the implementation of online credit recovery program in an urban district. It drew on the Stages of Concern (SOC) dimension of the Concern-Based Adoption Model (Hall & Hord, 2006) to discuss issues of change management and…

The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of concern of Illinois principals regarding the adoption of an evaluation system modeled after Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching. Principal demographics and involvement in the use of and professional development surrounding Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching were studied for…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the Stages of Concern (SoC) that school principals have toward change and then report participants' behavior relevant to their Level of Use (LoU) of an innovation. An understanding of principals' concerns regarding change suggested a variety of factors that impede educational leaders' implementation of…

Conceptually, Response to Intervention (RtI) is a multi-tiered problem solving process rooted in special education yet designed as a framework for early and on-going instructional interventions for students across a continuum of academic need. In recent years, however, RtI has become an increasingly significant part of the discourse on school…

Online education opportunities continue to expand across the United States, as is evidenced at a regional institution in northeast Texas. Research literature supports that both administrators and faculty have concerns regarding online education. The authors conducted a study at this institution to investigate the concerns of university…

Analysis of questionnaire results indicates that the majority of Kansas educators are unaware of and in disagreement with P.L. 94-142, that their concerns are at the low end of the concerns hierarchy, and that training needs to address awareness, personal impact, the reallocation of resources, and consequences for students. (Author/IRT)

The basic research problem was to ascertain the relationship between the concerns of the elementary school principal administering a mainstreaming program and the concerns of teachers teaching in one. The following questions were examined: (1) What specific stages of concern about the innovation were perceived by principals? (2) What specific…

This paper reports on the concerns of rural school superintendents in Texas regarding the inclusion of special needs students in regular classrooms. The Change Facilitator Stages of Concerns Questionnaire (CFSoCQ) and a demographic data sheet were completed by 484 of the 708 rural superintendents in Texas. The CFSoCQ consists of 35 items…

This study measured the importance of training for higher education faculty and administrators in adapting to and implementing distance education courses in an interactive television (ITV) environment. The quasi-experimental study utilized a pretest-posttest control group design with Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) used to analyze the data. The…