Successfully Transferring New Technology to School Systems Key Individual, Organizational, and Contextual Factors

成功地将新技术转移到学校系统关键个人、组织和背景因素

• 批准号: 9603458
• 负责人: Patricia Holahan
• 金额: $ 11.82万
• 依托单位: Stevens Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-15 至 1999-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9603458&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Successfully; Transferring; New; Technology; Systems

9603458 Holahan The Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology is leading the New Jersey Networking Infrastructure in Education Project (NJNIE). NJNIE is an NSF funded testbed project to reform K-12 science education. SIESE is in the second yar of this three-year, $219 million dollar program that is being implemented in collaboration with the New Jersey Statewide Systemic Initiative (NJSSI). CIESE's experience to date indicates that in some cases these technology transfer efforts have met with tremendous success, while in other cases little or no change has occurred despite equal access to resources, training, individualized assistance, etc. A deeper understanding of the individual, organizational, and contextual factors associated with successful technology transfer will allow us to increase our effectiveness as change agents by designing interventions which are specific to the school or school district;s needs. Moreover, deeper understanding of the factors necessary for success will enable us to achieve a better return on investment by more wisely allocating scarce resources. The first objective of this project is to develop a model of the individual, organizational and contextual factors that are important determinants of successful technology transfer. In this case successful technology transfer means successful integpation of telecommunications technology into the science curriculum and the use of the Internet in teaching K-12 science. The second goal of this project is to validate this model on a random sample of schools participating in the NJNIE project. The model to be developed will investigate three clusters of categories of predictors: (1) characteristics of the school's administrators and teachers (individual level factors), (2) characteristics of the school itself (organizational factors), and (3) characteristics of the context in which the school operates (district level factors). The literature suggests that all three classes of variables play a role in successfully transferring new technology. However, there is little in the way of evidence to suggest (a) which variables within each of these three classes of variables are most important to successful transfer, and (b) which of the three classes of variables overall is most important. Therefore, a third goal of the project will be to determine the relative importance of the variables in explaining successful technology transfer. Understanding the relative immportance of the various predictor variables should allow us to design interventions and allocate resources in ways that will have the greatest impact on desired outcomes.

小行星9603458 史蒂文斯理工学院的工程和科学教育改进中心（CIESE）正在领导新泽西教育项目网络基础设施（NJNIE）。NJNIE是NSF资助的一个试验台项目，旨在改革K-12科学教育。SIESE是这个为期三年、耗资2.19亿美元的项目的第二个亚尔项目，该项目正在与新泽西全州系统性倡议（NJSSI）合作实施。CIESE迄今为止的经验表明，在某些情况下，这些技术转让努力取得了巨大成功，而在另一些情况下，尽管有平等的机会获得资源、培训、个性化援助等，但几乎没有或根本没有发生变化。 与成功的技术转让相关的个人，组织和背景因素的更深入的了解将使我们能够通过设计针对学校或学区需求的干预措施来提高我们作为变革推动者的有效性。此外，更深入地了解成功的必要因素将使我们能够通过更明智地分配稀缺资源，实现更好的投资回报。 本项目的第一个目标是建立一个关于个人、组织和背景因素的模型，这些因素是成功技术转让的重要决定因素。在这种情况下，成功的技术转让意味着成功地将电信技术融入科学课程，并在K-12科学教学中使用互联网。该项目的第二个目标是在参与NJNIE项目的学校中随机抽样验证该模型。 该模型将研究三类预测因素：（1）学校管理者和教师的特征（个人层面因素）， (2)学校本身的特点（组织因素）;（3）学校运作环境的特点（地区因素）。 文献表明，所有三类变量都在成功转让新技术方面发挥作用。然而，很少有证据表明（a）这三类变量中的每一类变量对成功转移最重要，以及（B）三类变量中哪一类总体上最重要。因此，本项目的第三个目标是确定各种变量在解释成功的技术转让方面的相对重要性。了解各种预测变量的相对重要性，应该使我们能够以对预期结果产生最大影响的方式设计干预措施和分配资源。