Supporting sustained adoption of education innovations: The Designing for Sustained Adoption Assessment Instrument
Supporting sustained adoption of education innovations: The Designing for Sustained Adoption Assessment Instrument
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支持教育创新的持续采用：可持续采用评估工具的设计
DOI：
10.1186/s40594-016-0034-3
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
C. Henderson
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作者：
Courtney Stanford;R. Cole;J. Froyd;Debra Friedrichsen;Raina Khatri;C. Henderson
每年，世界各地都花费大量的精力和资源来开发创新的教学策略和材料，以改善本科科学、技术、工程和数学教育。尽管有令人信服的证据表明，在学生学习方面的有效性，大多数将努力成为成功宣传，以达到广泛使用。为了帮助开发人员改进他们的传播计划并鼓励持续的采用，我们开发了一个评估工具，它支持传播计划的开发、分析、评估和细化。基于我们对文献的综合，我们对成功传播的创新的分析，以及我们对资助的NSF CCLI提案子集的分析，我们认为缺乏采用的主要原因是开发人员将他们的努力集中在传播（传播单词）而不是传播（促进成功采用）上。为了帮助开发人员专注于更有效的传播计划的开发，持续采用评估工具的设计（DSAAI）基于三个主要的文献主体：(1)变化理论，(2)教学系统，(3)有效的传播策略。评估工具以标题的形式设计，以帮助教育发展商确定其宣传计划的优势和需要改进的地方。基于对几个不同用户群体的广泛测试，DSAAI分为四个主要部分：产品类型的识别、目标教学策略和/或材料的特征、传播活动清单，以及影响成功传播可能性的传播计划的各个方面。该工具已被证明对各种受众评估和改进提案和当前的研究项目是有用的。在这个评估工具的开发过程中提供反馈的教育开发人员发现它很有用，因为它不仅帮助他们评估他们的传播计划，而且还帮助他们意识到他们可以用来帮助开发和传播当前项目产品的其他策略，以及支持未来采用者的策略。资助撰写顾问可以使用它向客户提供反馈，资助机构可以使用DSAAI框架的部分内容来评估资助提案。
BackgroundEvery year, significant effort and resources are expended around the world to develop innovative instructional strategies and materials to improve undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education. Despite convincing evidence of efficacy with respect to student learning, most will struggle to become successfully propagated to reach widespread use. To help developers improve their propagation plans and to encourage sustained adoption, we have developed an assessment instrument that supports development, analysis, evaluation, and refinement of propagation plans.ResultsBased on our synthesis of the literature, our analysis of successfully propagated innovations, and our analysis of a subset of funded NSF CCLI proposals, we argue that a primary reason for the lack of adoption is that developers focus their efforts on dissemination (spreading the word) instead of propagation (promoting successful adoption). To help developers focus on development of more effective propagation plans, the Designing for Sustained Adoption Assessment Instrument (DSAAI) is based on three primary bodies of literature: (1) change theory, (2) instructional systems, and (3) effective propagation strategies. The assessment instrument was designed in the form of a rubric to help education developers identify strengths and areas for improvement of their propagation plans. Based on extensive testing across several different groups of users, the DSAAI is divided into four main sections: identification of product type, features of target instructional strategies and/or materials, a propagation activities checklist, and aspects of the propagation plans that influence likelihood of successful propagation.ConclusionsThe instrument has proven useful for a variety of audiences to evaluate and improve proposals and current research projects. Education developers who provided feedback during the development of this assessment instrument found it useful because it helped them not only evaluate their propagation plans but also become aware of other strategies they could use to help develop and disseminate products of current projects, as well as strategies for supporting future adopters. Grant writing consultants can use it to provide feedback to their clients, and funding agencies can use parts of the DSAAI framework to evaluate grant proposals.