- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- The effects of intervention on teacher concerns and use of an adopted innovation: a concerns-based adoption model study, 1989
- Creator:
- Crumbley, Mary A. W.
- Date of Original:
- 1989-12-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The purposes of this study were (a) to identify the concerns of middle school teachers about an adopted curriculum innovation, (b) to determine their levels of use of the innovation, and (c) to provide intervention designed to resolve the teachers' concerns and thereby increase their use of the innovation. The participants in this study were 56 teachers who taught reading or mathematics, or both in grades 6 and 8. This study was guided by the concepts and tenets of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM). Two dimensions of the CBAM were used in this study: (a) the Stages of Concern about the Innovation and (b) the Levels of Use of the Innovation. The innovation in this study was a composition program which emphasized the concept of "Writing Across the Curriculum". A one group pretest-posttest research design was used to conduct this investigation. Pre- and post�test data were collected and compared for changes in teacher concerns and use of the innovation. The changes were tested for significance using several statistical techniques: (a) Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks Test, (b) Kruskal-Wallis One-Way ANOVA by Ranks, (c) Spearman correlation, and (d) Pearson correlation. The results of this study revealed that significant differences existed between the subjects' pre- and post-test Stages of Concern scores and between their initial and final Levels of Use ratings. There was no significant relationship between the subjects' Stages of Concern about and Levels of Use of the innovation. The results also showed that there was no significant relationship between the subjects' concerns about or their use of the innovation and demographic variables, such as age, gender, level of education, and length of testing experience. Although significant changes were observed in the subjects' use of and concerns about the innovation, the researcher could not state conclusively that the changes were due solely to the intervention tactics applied.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1989_crumbley_mary_a_w
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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