Purpose: In far too many cases the initiatives to change schools by introducing new programs, processes and reforms has not resulted in obtainment of the desired outcomes. A major reason for limited outcomes suggested in this paper is that there has been a failure to learn from and apply constructs and measures related to understanding,…

Introducing new practices alone seldom results in new practices being incorporated into ongoing classroom practices. The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) provides a way to transfer new practices into the classroom. This article presents the Implementation Bridge, a metaphor for moving from the earlier or less advanced stages to the later or…

To avoid implementation problems, thought must be given to diagnosis and systematic adaptive planning for the implementation of educational innovations. (MM)

This article presents a method that accounts for individual variation in use of an innovation. (JS)

A model of innovation adoption process, the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), has been developed from empirical evidence. The CBAM depicts innovation adoption in educational institutions as a developmental process in which each user of the innovation demonstrates successively higher qualities of use of the innovation. The CBAM also depicts…

An attempt to develop understandings about how individuals experience change within organizational contexts is presented. Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) research provides background for how evaluation utilization can be defined and why it might be useful to view evaluation as an innovation. A change process-based definition of evaluation…

This paper describes Innovation Configuration (IC) Mapping as an approach for assessing the extent of implementation of a program. An IC Map is similar metaphorically to a road map in that it summarizes different ways of getting from one point to another. Each map consists of basic units, or components, that can be made operational in a number of…

Researchers have only recently recognized that assertions by various educators that they have implemented educational innovations do not all mean the same thing or bear the same weight, according to the authors of this report. Efforts made by the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at the University of Texas at Austin to…

This paper examines the recent research on the change process, with emphasis on implementation of educational innovations, to see what messages might be implied for teachers and their teaching skills. How various aspects of the change process research lead to the identification and description of these kinds of skills for teachers are described.…

This paper on staff development proposes one dimension of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), Stages of Concern, as a diagnostic tool for use by counselors, administrators, staff developers and other change facilitators who are responsible for the timing and delivery of staff development experiences. A rationale for staff development, the…

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…

An attempt has been made to categorize phenomena observed as 20 teacher training institutions have adopted innovations and to extrapolate from these findings key concepts and principles that could form the basis for developing empirically testable hypotheses and could be of some immediate utility to those involved in innovation adoption. The…

The concept of Stages of Concern about the Innovation (SoC) deals with the psychological orientation of both users and nonusers toward an innovation. This article describes the SoC concept and highlights illustrative research findings. Interventions hypothesized as potentially appropriate and implications for the change process are discussed.…

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…

A total of 411 public school teachers participated in a project researching the highly personal experiences and phenomena encountered by individual educators in schools and colleges as they "adopt" educational innovations. (Author/MLF)