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Download full textCox, Pat L.; Havelock, Ronald G. – 1982
This paper describes one component of the Study of Dissemination Efforts Supporting School Improvement, which focused on the role that external facilitators play in helping schools implement new educational practices. The first part describes the external facilitator sample (95 respondents) and delineates the major formal role groups of external…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Loucks, Susan F.; Cox, Pat L. – 1982
This paper focuses on local (school district level) facilitators, or individuals with major responsibility for implementing federal or state-sponsored school improvement practices. It covers who they are, what roles they play, and how they contribute to various outcomes. The sample is from the Study of Dissemination Efforts Supporting School…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Educational Innovation
Cox, Pat L. – 1983
The Dissemination Efforts Supporting School Improvement (DESSI) study examined the adoption or development and implementation in 146 schools in 10 states of 61 practices that were part of 4 federal or state programs. Local schools in the study sample were asked to identify those individuals (facilitators) who had helped them with a particular new…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Consultants, Diffusion (Communication), Educational Improvement
