Screen candidate educational improvement activities with eight pre-determined feasibility questions¶

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Description¶

After identifying educational activities that could foster the behaviors named in specific objectives, planners screen them for practicality using eight pre-determined questions: compatibility, complexity, financial costs, time factors, space requirements, magnitude of innovation, support needed, and relative advantages. The workbook states that "it is necessary to subject the activities toa screening procedure.A set of pre-determined questions can help in designing the mostappropriate educational program." Activities are rated excellent/good/poor on each question, and those surviving screening are logically grouped into an educational improvement program.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A set of specific objectives from which candidate educational activities have been identified
• a rating chart for the eight screening questions

Constraints¶

• Not all possible activities are practical or feasible in a given situation, so screening may eliminate activities as impractical

Target Learners¶

• school and district staff development planners

Target Learning Goals¶

• translate objectives into planned educational improvement programs
• screen and organize educational improvement activities

Related Strategies¶

• Prioritize felt needs using matrix ranking or paired comparisons before verification
• Use review findings to identify promising targets for social innovations improving poor children's educational prospects

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Huenecke, Dorothy M.; Stansbury, George W. (1975). A Systems Approach to Staff Development. Georgia State Dept. of Education. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED123751