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Peer reviewedRowan, Brian – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1982
A historical study of three school administrative services--school health, psychology, and curriculum--in 30 California school districts during 1930-1970 used an institutional environment approach to find that balance among institutions and agencies governing school systems, not organizational size, led to greater diffusion and retention of the…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Curriculum Development, Diffusion, Educational Administration
Download full textHAVELOCK, RONALD G. – 1967
LINKING ROLES IN THE DISSEMINATION AND UTILIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE ARE INVESTIGATED. THE VARIOUS TYPES OF AGENTS LINKING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE INCLUDE--(1) THE CONVEYOR, (2) THE CONSULTANT, (3) THE LEADER, (4) KNOWLEDGE BUILDERS, (5) THE DEFENDER, (6) THE INNOVATOR, (7) PRACTITIONERS, AND (8) THE USER. THREE ISSUES CONCERNING THE INSTITUTIONAL…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Communication Problems, Consultants, Diffusion
Manning, Brad A. – 1973
The Trouble Shooting Checklist-B (TSC-B) is a predictive instrument to aid the educational change agent in defining variables within institutions or organizations which are concerned with adopting a psychological assessment battery with some form of personal counseling orientation in deciding whether or not an institution is suited for a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies
Manning, Brad A. – 1973
The Trouble Shooting Checklist-A (TSC-A) is a predictive instrument to aid the educational change agent in defining variables within institutions or organizations which are concerned with adopting modules in deciding whether or not an institution is suited for a particular innovation. These five dimensions comprise the major scales: Organization…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents
Eidell, Terry L., Ed.; Kitchel, Joanne M., Ed. – 1968
The seven papers contained in this monograph were presented at the Seventeenth UCEA Career Development Seminar held in Portland, Oregon, October 1967. Some papers view the problems of applying new knowledge to practice quite generally in the context of the broader society while others focus more sharply on strategies for implementing the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Diffusion, Educational Administration
Manning, Brad A. – 1974
The Trouble-Shooting Checklist (TSC) is an empirically-developed, descriptive instrument which is based on the responses of six educational change agents. It enables an agent to predict a given institution's success in adopting innovations by ordering its levels of concerns and innovation usage. It focuses on two types of innovation:…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies
Manning, Brad A. – 1973
The first section of this manual contains a selective review of organizational change literature which focuses on predictive institutional variables as they affect the adoption-diffusion process. The second section describes the development of the Trouble Shooting Checklist (TSC). The third section presents two Trouble Shooting Checklists (TSC-A…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies
