Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) stages of concern¶

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 mixed) · 1 study (1 qualitative), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

The CBAM, developed by the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education in Austin, Texas, is a developmental model of innovation adoption proposing that adopters progress through a predictable sequence of seven concerns: from self-oriented Awareness, Informational, and Personal concerns, to task-related Management concerns, to impact-related Consequence, Collaboration, and Refocusing concerns. The article uses it as the organizing framework for interpreting teachers' adoption of networked CAI and multimedia, measuring concerns with the SoCQ. It also proposes that change interventions will be more effective if they address the concerns predominant at the time.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Measurement of adopters' concerns profiles, e.g. via the Stages of Concern Questionnaire, to locate adopters in the sequence

Constraints¶

• The article's findings indicate the strictly sequential conception requires modification, since early concerns persisted while later ones emerged

Target Learners¶

• elementary school teachers adopting classroom technologies

Target Learning Objectives¶

• successful integration of technological innovations into teaching practice

Claims¶

• Early Concerns Maintained Alongside Later Concerns [~M]

Related Theories¶

• Concerns-Based Adoption Model: change is a process with diagnosable dimensions
• Fuller Teacher Concerns Theory: three developmental stages of teacher concerns
• The five-stage teacher technology adoption process: Entry, Adoption, Adaptation, Appropriation, Invention
• Seven Stages of Concern About an Innovation

Examples¶

• Match the form and content of staff development interventions to clients' assessed Stages of Concern
• Stages of Concern Questionnaire (SoCQ)

Key Sources¶

• Wesley, Marion T., Jr. and Franks, Melvin Eugene. (1996). Advanced Adoption of Computer Technology in the Classroom and Teachers' Participation in Voluntary Innovation Adoption Activities. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED402907