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Salisbury, Christine L.; Woods, Juliann; Copeland, Christina – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2010
An exploratory case study was undertaken to investigate the perspectives and experiences of six early intervention providers as they adopted and implemented a collaborative consultation approach to home visiting in urban neighborhoods. Survey, semistructured interview, and focus group methods were used over a 2-year period to obtain data about…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Neighborhoods, Early Intervention, Focus Groups
Hall, Gene E. – 1978
Over the past few years, several complicated innovations, such as mainstreaming and minimal competency testing, have confronted teachers in addition to their usual responsibilities. In order to facilitate the teachers' implementation of such changes, the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) was developed, using the teacher and the innovation as…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Gardner, C. Hugh; Tillman, Murray H. – 1986
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using an electronic bulletin board in an off-campus doctoral program (Ed.D.) for health professionals offered by the University of Georgia. Participants included 14 doctoral students (13 female and 1 male) enrolled in an advanced course, Research in Instruction, who received training in…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Allied Health Occupations, Communication (Thought Transfer), Costs
Buhendwa, Frank M. – 1996
Current research suggests that teacher development evolves in stages, and that teacher concerns as professionals are central to teacher development. The concerns theory suggests that teacher growth involves a gradual change from concerns about self, to concerns about the task at hand, to concerns about the connections and implications of self,…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Check Lists, Construct Validity, Education Majors
Rogers, George E.; Wilson, Ruth D. – 1992
A study examined the acceptance of the time-shortened articulation (TSA) approach adopted to implement tech prep programs by Idaho postsecondary trade and industrial instructors. From a sample of 143 instructors, 46 usable responses were received. Hall's (1979) Stages of Concern (SoC) model was used to determine if they had accepted the process,…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Articulation (Education), Attitude Change, College School Cooperation