Investigated were the relationships among three characteristics of administrators (school superintendents' innovativeness, dogmatism, and perceptions of situational pressures). Superintendents with three or four of the new programs were ranked as higly innovative, and superintendents with less than three were ranked as low innovative. The superintendents were also asked to choose from each of 12 paired factors the factor which was most influential regarding the adoption of new secondary school curricular programs. The number of choices in each classification became the basis for scoring superintendents' perceived situational pressures as either high or low. A twenty item dogmatism scale was also administered. Results indicated: (1) a significant "positive" relationship between superintendents' innovativeness and perceived pressures to give primary consideration to the merits of innovations, a relationship which held only for low dogmatic superintendents; a "negative" relationship between superintendents' innovativeness and perceived internal pressures to give primary consideration to factors other than the merits of innovations; and (3) a "positive" relationship between dogmatism and innovativeness of school superintendents having low perceived pressures to give primary consideration to the merits of innovations. (RS)