Intervention Taxonomy: six levels of change-facilitating interventions from incident to policy¶

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Description¶

The Intervention Taxonomy classifies the actions that influence use of an innovation into six nested levels. The paper reports that "One finding from this research is that different levels of interventions can be identified," ranging from short incident interventions aimed at one or a few people up to the overall game plan and the formal and informal policies that set boundaries on the change effort. The levels are Policy, Game Plan, Strategy, Tactic, and Incident, classified by attributes such as how many people are directly affected and how long a time period the intervention covers. The authors hypothesize that many change efforts bog down because decision makers do not account for all intervention levels.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Staff development activities should occur at all intervention levels, not only one or two such as orientations and one-day workshops

Constraints¶

• The taxonomy is excerpted from Hall, Zigarmi, & Hord (1979), a prototype with initial testing

Target Learners¶

• change facilitators, administrators, staff developers, and counselors planning innovation implementation

Target Learning Objectives¶

• planning and monitoring staff development activities across an entire change effort

Claims¶

Related Theories¶

• Stages of Concern About the Innovation: a seven-stage developmental taxonomy of individuals' concerns

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Hall, Gene E.; Rutherford, William L. (1983). Client Concerns: A Guide to Facilitating Institutional Change. Research and Development Center for Teacher Education, The University of Texas at Austin. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED251728