The primary focus of the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) is the individual teacher and professor involved in explorinq, selecting, and implementing educational innovations. The conceptual basis of CBAM proposes developmental steps of growth in feelings and skills that are experienced by individuals as they adopt innovations. The CBAM also…

This brief annotated bibliography introduces publications from the Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations/Concerns-Based Adoption Model program of the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Each entry includes a bibliographic citation, a brief abstract, and availability information on…

Intergovernmental influences do not impact in a uniform fashion on local decisions to innovate. Such influences are often attenuated or minimized by local circumstances. (Author/IRT)

Describes a comprehensive guidance model designed to help the middle school student achieve the developmental and learning tasks of transescence and outlines a step-by-step plan for implementing the model. (Author/IRT)

Accounts, in part, for the successful implementation of an alternative "school-without-walls" and provides clues to what program administrators can do to make it more likely that new programs will get fair trials in the schools. (Author/IRT)

Presents trends in adoption between 1964 and 1982 for four types of adoption in California: public agency, private agency, independent, and intercountry (foreign) adoption. For each type, the characteristics of adopted children, of their biological parents, and of their adoptive parents are compared. (Author/BB)

Describes the adoption of innovation as a slow process that gradually accelerates, and applies this to the adoption of information technology innovations. Topics discussed include user information needs, awareness of innovations, and mastery of new technologies. (CLB)

Describes the nature of the godparent relationship, which is prominent in Hispanic family culture. Cites results of a study of Hispanic godparents, and urges more effort by the child welfare system to explore the availability of godparents as placement resources. (SKC)

Examines the mission of a Massachusetts state program responsible for coordinating the placement of children with AIDS in an adoption or foster child program when appropriate. Investigates issues relative to direct care, day care, school attendance and confidentiality in cases with children of AIDS. (RWB)

This study identified teachers' attitudes about educational computing and investigated the effects of a university-offered inservice teacher education course on these concerns. Affective changes in teachers enrolled in the course were measured using the Stages of Concern Questionnaire, and implications of the findings for designers of such courses…

A path model of genetic and shared family environmental transmission was fitted to general cognitive ability data from 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old adopted and nonadopted children and their parents to assess the etiology of longitudinal stability from infancy to early childhood. (HOD)

Reports data from one phase of a longitudinal study of transracial adoptions. Assesses issues of the child's overall adjustment and the emergence of racial identity. Offers two divergent interpretations of the data. (Author/NH)

Explores licensing of out-of-home care as nonservice protective approach to child welfare distinguished from placement protective services. Discusses individual and role conflicts in relation to common goals of community protection of vulnerable children. Reviews administrative and organizational issues in light of assuring consistent and uniform…

This study investigated instructional elements of inservice training sessions that prepare teachers to implement innovations, looking specifically at teachers' concerns, instructional elements, and relationships between the two. The results are discussed and recommendations made to enhance the likelihood of successful training. (MT)

Relates research in psychical occurrences (PSI) encompassing three types of phenomena--extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, and out-of-body survival after death--to the field of information science. Highlights include concepts facilitating acceptance of PSI, remote viewing, applications of PSI phenomena in the business field, and PSI and…