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Loucks, Susan F.; Crandall, David P. – 1982
The practice profile is a standardized, systematic, cost-effective tool for summarizing the components and requirements of a program in a manner that permits comparison with other programs or selection of discrete components from various programs. It provides a component checklist, a precise list of implementation requirements, and a system for…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation, Program Administration
Download full textLoucks, 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
Loucks, Susan F. – 1983
Teachers who implement new programs have often been observed to adapt them to suit their own teaching situations. This process of adaptation raises four important issues: (1) Can teachers replicate practices developed elsewhere? (2) Can they be equally effective in doing so? (3) Must adaptation occur for implementation to succeed? and (4) Can…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Loucks, Susan F.; And Others – 1982
Based on a local site sample of 146 school districts, this volume (the second in a series of 10) describes school improvement efforts supported by 4 different federal strategies and representative programs: interpersonal linkage of validated practices (National Diffusion Network), commercial distribution (Bureau of Education for the Handicapped…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Loucks, Susan F. – 1977
A longitudinal study was conducted which focused on the concerns of elementary school teachers who were involved in implementing the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) curriculum. Two major questions were addressed: (1) Do stages of concern exist? (2) If so, are they developmental? The sample consisted of teachers attending summer…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Loucks, Susan F.; And Others – 1982
The first in a 10-volume report, this volume provides an overview of the NETWORK school improvement study as a whole, placing it within the context of federal dissemination-related school improvement policies and programs. Existing research on these programs is examined and synthesized, and the evolution of the federal role in dissemination is…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Data Analysis, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
