The purpose of this study was to investigate certain conditions which have been associated with successful school improvement projects, including: (1) the local principal's support, (2) faculty enthusiasm, (3) support of the district administration, (4) outside resources and information, (5) inservice training and technical assistance, and (6) school-based advocacy groups. The context of the study was the Florida Linkage System (FLS), a Federally funded R & D Utilization project involving twenty-three school sites where the implementation of validated teaching materials and/or procedures was planned in response to specific instructional needs. / One survey instrument was designed to measure the relative importance that FLS personnel attributed to each facilitating condition and the relative degree that each condition existed at the project site approximately nine months after initial implementation efforts had begun. Another survey instrument was designed to assess the degree that individual projects were implemented and the degree to which participating staff were satisfied with the progress of implementation efforts. / The responses of FLS teachers and administrators were aggregated to represent individual project sites. Facilitating conditions were analyzed in terms of their mean importance to FLS project personnel and their mean existence at the various school sites. Correlation coefficients were determined between each facilitating condition and measures of project implementation and staff satisfaction. Path analysis was then employed to derive quantitative estimates of the causal impact associated with each facilitating condition. / It was found that: (1) existence ratings for the six facilitating conditions yielded highly reliable (internally consistent) measures; (2) existence ratings were significantly different from importance ratings made on the same conditions; (3) existence ratings were significantly and positively correlated with project implementation and staff satisfaction; (4) facilitating conditions were significantly and positively correlated with one another; (5) all of the facilitating conditions had a measurable causal impact on project success measures; and (6) there was a substantive difference between the rank ordering of facilitating conditions based on importance ratings versus rank ordering based on the magnitude of correlations and causal effects. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2631. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74517 |
| Contributors | RICHARDSON, GERALD LEE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 97 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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