This document reports on a federally funded Experimental Schools project that took place over a five-year period, 1972-77, in a small, rural Oregon district. The report is primarily a narrative on change and change agentry as viewed from the perspective of school personnel. After background discussion and brief descriptions of the program,…

The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), a representation of the process by which an educational institution adopts an innovation, views adoption as a developmental process involving complex interaction between an adopting institution, a user system, and a resource system. The resource system is usually a formal organization whose expert…

The present study was in part a case study involving the levels of use that existed among a sample of second- and fourth-grade teachers using or anticipating the use of individualized instruction in reading and mathematics instruction. The sample was assumed to include both users and nonusers of the innovation as half the schools were involved in…

An example of the way gaming can be used to bring attention to, and improve skills in, making democracy function better is presented. The game is played by seven people seated around two triangular playing boards; it involves making choices among least, intermediate, and most preferred alternatives, keeping the preferences of the majority in…

A proposal was presented at Regional Child Welfare League of America Conference, Totonto, March 1973 which claims that the majority of issues, tasks and problems in foster care and adoption are similar and that family life, whether original, foster or adoptive, is essentially the same. The author contends that adoption agencies must take on an…

The study was made to consider cultural factors related to the acceptance or nonacceptance of farm practices. Some major conclusions were: (1) demonstrators should be in the age group 30-45, (2) reading material should be at the seventh or eighth grade level, (3) meetings should be convenient for small or disadvantaged farmers to attend, (4)…

The results of an experience obtained while working with children in the early stages of infancy are presented. They are basically observations taken of a child's reaction to sudden changes, particularly separation from its mother. Anxiety was observed in these infants in diverse circumstances; in some cases it was at a normal level and in others…

Transactional perception theory suggests understandings that can affect the adoption of educational change. The pace of educational change should maintain a gap between a person's external conditions and the person's assumptions about himself and the world (constancies) that is great enough to be stimulating but not so great as to render actions…

Variables associated with curriculum familarity and adoption by a sample group of head teachers in England are examined. For journal availability, see SO 504 736. (DE)

This article describes the results of the research relative to the initiation and diffusion process variables, and lists certain propositions which may be useful to practitioners, planning consultants and researchers. (Author/HB)

The relationships between educator's innovation adoption behavior and attributes of innovations described by Rogers and Shoemaker are examined. Only one of the five hypothesized relationships was accepted. (DS)

This discussion has outlined the role played by program costs in the three-stage policy process--policy formulation, policy implementation, and policy evaluation. It has described both the relevance and a framework for education policy evaluation. (Author/IRT)

A permanent part-time work force estimated at sixteen to seventeen million is one of the fastest-growing segments of the work population. The article discusses and presents some examples of job sharing--two persons handling one job--as a means of increasing employment, avoiding layoffs, and meeting individual needs. (MF)

Argues that innovation attributes, together with policies associated with the diffusion on an innovation, account for significant differences in diffusion patterns. An empirical analysis of this thesis focuses on the diffusion of computer applications software in local government. Available from Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., Box 211,…

An approach to problem solving, said to lessen the barriers in the usual small group or committee situation, is described as a structured, task-directed method of brainstorming. Rules for brainstorming, organizing, a sample brainstorming assignment, and potential merits and pitfalls of the system are given. (MF)