The purpose of this study was to analyze the process by which an educational innovation was introduced into a Venezuelan school. The "Concern-Based Adoption Model" (CBAM), developed by the University of Texas, served as the theoretical basis for the study and its validity explored in a Latin American setting. The CBAM Model focuses on the teachers who were affected by the innovation in order to prescribe interventions--help and support--designed to facilitate the change process. / The specific purpose of this study was to acquire knowledge as to how an educational innovation in Venezuela--school library services--was being implemented by teachers in a primary public school. This was done by examining teachers' "stages of concern" (SoC) toward the innovation, the affective component, and their "level of use" (LoU) of the innovation, the behavioral dimension of the CBAM model. / The study was conducted with a sample of 41 classroom teachers, representative of 250 teachers from a Municipal School Library Project. To collect the data, the researcher constructed a Spanish version of the instrument, which was revised and approved by the developers from the University of Texas. Since the data collected with the Spanish SoC questionnaire were consistent with the information obtained through the LoU interviews, it provides confidence to continue using the instrument to monitor the initiation and implementation stages of the adoption process of educational innovations in Spanish speaking settings. / The findings indicated the use of the innovation, as planned by the change agency, had not been achieved since very few teachers were in fact using it. Although teachers had intense personal concerns toward the innovation and its consequence for them, they were not negative toward the innovation. Recommendations were developed for interventions to facilitate use of the innovation. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-09, Section: A, page: 2857. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74924 |
| Contributors | HOROWITZ, ARNOLD., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 234 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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