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Implementation of Educational Innovation

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Implementation of Educational Innovation

Berman and McLaughlin, (1976) The Educational Forum, 40 p345-370

Change Agents

Federal policies to improve education for the disadvantaged
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Elementary and Secondary Act Title III

  • designed to improve the quality of education
  • Introduce model practices that were new
  • spread existing practices to new sites
  • competitive grants over three years
  • any kind of project
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Additional Federal Change Agent policies

  • Right to read- to create national priority for reading
  • Vocational Education--to create exemplary programs for
  •  enhancing career awareness and readiness
  • ESEA Title IV- to create model projects for
  • Bilingual Education and cultural pluralism
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Common Purpose

Stimulation and spread of educational Innovation

Common Assumptions of these federal programs

  • American education should be doing better
  • Educational practices, procedures and methods can be improved
  • within existing educational structural
  • Using the federal change agent policies to fund
  • small numbers of districts to try new innovations and share with others
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Evaluation research of these policies

Disappointing findings

Two general findings:
variation in student outcomes and
successful programs hard to recreate

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Federal Programs for educational Innovation?

Study Design
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RESEARCH DESIGN FOR FIRST YEAR

  • Review of the literature
  • Nationwide survey
  • Field studies of projects
  • Staff interviews with federal programs
  • Summarize, compare, find effectiveness

Stages of Innovation

Initiation, implementation, and incorporation
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Initiation

Opportunism vs Problem-solving

Implementation

Mutual Adaptation, nonimplementation and cooptation

Incorporation

Replacement or supplemental
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PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, RESOURCE LEVEL, SCOPE OF CHANGE,STRATEGY

INSTITUTIONAL SETTING

CLIMATE AND MOTIVATION, CHARACTERISTICS OF SITE AND ACTORS

EFFECTS OF FEDERAL POLICIES ON PROJECT OUTCOMES

CHANGE AGENT OBJECTIVES AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

POLICY IMPLICATIONS

PROMISES VS OUTCOMES, ALTERNATIVE PREMISES AND POLICIES
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