Journal article
Analysis of Propagation Plans in NSF-Funded Education Development Projects
Journal of science education and technology, Vol.26(4), pp.418-437
08/2017
DOI: 10.1007/s10956-017-9689-x
Abstract
Increasing adoption and adaptation of promising instructional strategies and materials has been identified as a critical component needed to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. This paper examines typical propagation practices and resulting outcomes of proposals written by developers of educational innovations. These proposals were analyzed using the Designing for Sustained Adoption Assessment Instrument (DSAAI), an instrument developed to evaluate propagation plans, and the results used to predict the likelihood that a successful project would result in adoption by others. We found that few education developers propose strong propagation plans. Afterwards, a follow-up analysis was conducted to see which propagation strategies developers actually used to help develop, disseminate, and support their innovations. A web search and interviews with principal investigators were used to determine the degree to which propagation plans were actually implemented and to estimate adoption of the innovations. In this study, we analyzed 71 education development proposals funded by the National Science Foundation and predicted that 80% would be unsuccessful in propagating their innovations. Follow-up data collection with a subset of these suggests that the predictions were reasonably accurate.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Analysis of Propagation Plans in NSF-Funded Education Development Projects
- Creators
- Courtney StanfordRenee ColeJeff FroydCharles HendersonDebra FriedrichsenRaina Khatri
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of science education and technology, Vol.26(4), pp.418-437
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10956-017-9689-x
- ISSN
- 1059-0145
- eISSN
- 1573-1839
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000001, name: National Science Foundation, award: 1236926, 1122446, 1122416
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2017
- Academic Unit
- Chemistry
- Record Identifier
- 9983985992402771
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