Focusing on the use of the interview in the Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations (PAEI) Project, this paper reports on the appropriateness of the interview as a research tool in change research and the types of information appropriate to its use. In this project, interviews are used to identify what an individual is doing, has done, or…

To increase the value of teacher inservice workshops, the authors of this paper suggest obtaining teacher participation in the selection of workshop topics and interviewing teachers to determine their utilization of the methods presented in the workshops. Noting that participants found fewer than half of 52 selected workshops both necessary and…