The attitude does matter: The role of principals' and teachers' concerns in an implementation process. (2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Teerling, Annika; Bernholt, Andrea; Igler, Jennifer; Schlitter, Theresa; Ohle-Peters, Annika; McElvany, Nele; Köller, Olaf
• Is Part Of: International journal of educational research. Volume 100(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020
• Subjects: Implementation -- Professional development -- Elementary teachers -- Stages of Concern; Education -- Evaluation -- Periodicals; Curriculum evaluation -- Periodicals; Education -- Periodicals; Program Evaluation -- Periodicals; Éducation -- Évaluation -- Périodiques; Programmes d'études -- Evaluation -- Périodiques; Éducation -- Recherche -- Périodiques; Curriculum evaluation; Education -- Evaluation; Periodicals; 370.72
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2019.101528
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0883-0355

Abstract

Highlights: Enthusiasm and Satisfaction with an innovation associated with the way participants deal with an innovation. Person-centered approach useful to explore the reactions of participants during an implementation process. Concern profiles associated with the participants adoption and diffusion of the innovation. Students' achievement is predicted by the diffusion of the innovation and the participants adoption. Abstract: Using the Stages of Concern, this study aimed to map the reactions of principals and teachers when confronted with an innovation. Furthermore, in this study, individual factors that predicted these concern profiles and the role these profiles play in an implementation process were investigated. For this purpose, we linked the concern profiles with participants' adoption and diffusion of the innovation ( N = 66) as well as with students' outcomes ( N = 539). Although the profiles differed between principals and teachers, they appeared as strong predictors of students' achievement in the conceptualized implementation process in both subsamples.