This document presents hearings conducted by the Labor and Human Resources Subcommittee on Aging, Family and Human Services on the progress that has been made in adoption procedures in the United States. Included are testimony and statements of the subcommittee's members and expert witnesses, statements prepared by professional organizations,…

The developing nations of the Americas have historically patterned, and are currently patterning, their educational administration enterprises on the models of their colonizers or on the industrial nations with whom they identify or depend. Yet the imposition of education that is not representative of a country's culture exemplifies cultural…

This planning guide provides eligible education agencies in New York State with the necessary information and instructions for replication grant competition in Title IV of the Elementary Secondary Education Act. Replication is the final phase of the "transferring success" process whereby a demonstrator's program is adopted by a New York…

The purpose of this guide is to assist child welfare program managers in the documentation of their program efforts by providing both a recommended process and format. Section I provides a general discussion of the documentation process as well as suggestions for how to document a program. Section II presents the recommended format to be used in…

FIFTY-FOUR PARTICIPANTS FROM NINE STATES ATTENDED THE CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS REGIONAL RESEARCH, METHODOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS, AND NEW AREAS OF RESEARCH. TEXTS OF MAJOR SPEECHES GIVEN AT THE CONFERENCE ARE INCLUDED--"RESEARCH IN EDUCATION" BY W. K. BEGGS, "THE CHALLENGE TO SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURE," BY HOWARD W. OTTOSON, "RESEARCH…

TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE INFLUENCE EXERTED BY DIFFERENT SOURCES ON THE ADOPTION OF INNOVATIONS AMONG EXPERIENCED VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE TEACHERS, THIS STUDY HAD AS SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES TO (1) DEVELOP MEANS OF CLASSIFYING TEACHERS INTO ADOPTER CATEGORIES, (2) IDENTIFY THE MORE INFLUENTIAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION IN CREATING AWARENESS, (3) IDENTIFY…

FROM A LIST OF 2,260 BEGINNING DAIRY OPERATORS THE STRATIFIED RANDOM CLUSTER METHOD WAS USED TO SELECT APPROXIMATELY 10 PERCENT WHICH REPRESENTED 13 AGRICULTURAL REGIONS OF NEW YORK. THIS SAMPLE OF 223 OPERATORS WAS INTERVIEWED TO (1) DETERMINE THEIR PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS, (2) ASCERTAIN THEIR ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL WITH RESPECT TO SELECTED FARM…

The first part of this report of the U.S. House of Representatives presents the text of the "Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980." The Act consists of three parts: Title I: Foster Care and Adoption Assistance; Title II: Social Services; and Title III: Other Social Security Act Provisions. Objectives of the Act are to (1)…

The Levels of Use (LoU) interview has been developed to study implementation as a dynamic process. This paper focuses on the use of a mathematics skills monitoring system and reports how information collected during the typical LoU interview provided the data for assigning each teacher to a configuration or pattern of use of the monitoring system.…

Major steps of the change process include research, development, diffusion, and adoption, each with its specific objective and relation to change. Each of these steps can be further categorized into a number of particular activities by which each step is accomplished. The kinds of educational research performed in the United States are influenced…

This paper presents three case studies of innovation, based on interviews with six adoption agents. Key episodes and incidents which illustrate important principles are drawn from the experiences of these adoption agents. The case studies offer examples of both success and failure--by both internal and external adoption agents. They also emphasize…

This guide to simplified performance management approaches contains five sections. The first section, entitled "Simple Techniques for Managing an Innovation," is written from the viewpoint of a principal as manager. It describes how to manage an innovation, develop an objective, allocate resources for the innovation, keep organized…

In this publication a number of conditions which may act as hindrances to extended use of foster care are elucidated. By means of interviews information has been collected from child welfare committees, institutions, and foster home societies, including information about their attitudes to foster home care versus institutional care, their practice…

Five areas of research into innovation adoption in educational institutions are described in this report. They are a) identification and description of phases involved in innovation adoption, b) development of assessment methods for predicting an institution's potential for successful adoption of change, c) development of measurement procedures…

Schools can be changed from the inside if one works with the dynamics that schools respond to. Four generalizations about the change in the schools are that: 1) Innovations must be comprehensible to the leadership of schools, i.e., innovations must be introduced to the administrators of schools as well as teachers -- administrators need to…