The condition that Facilitate implementation and institutionalization of instructional innovation: case study descriptive evaluation in elementary education

Subject Areas : Educational Science

hashem fardanesh ¹ , mohammadreza vahdani ²

1 - عضو هیأت علمی گروه تکنولوژی آموزشی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی
2 - دانشجوی دکتری تکنولوژی آموزشی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی

Received: 2015-12-26 Accepted : 2015-12-26 Published : 2014-04-21

Keywords: educational innovation, Facilitating Conditions, Implementation, institutionalization, evaluation of qualitative, descriptive,

Abstract :

 The purpose of this research is to study the conditions that Facilitate implementation and institutionalization of instructional innovations ( a qualitative and descriptive evaluation). In this study, a qualitative and descriptive evaluation, considered as an example of educational innovation was used. In a correlational research design, 100 primary school teachers from five schools who implemented a descriptive, qualitative evaluation project (including the first to fifth grad) were selected with a multi-stage cluster sampling method. Then participants filled out  the condition that facilitate implementation and institutionalization of the qualitative and descriptive evaluation questionnaire with five value Likert from strongly disagree to strongly agree options. The  validity  of the instrument was confirmed by experts and its reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha (α= 0/92). To analyze the data, exploratory factor analysis using oblique rotation, Friedman test and post hoc Wilcoxon test was used by a significant level of p≤ 0/01. Based on the results of factor analysis, 29 items, were identified, in eight factors: dissatisfaction with the current situation (4 items), existing knowledge and information (4 items), availability of resources (4 items), enough time (3 items) rewards and / or encouragements (3 items), participation in decision-making (3 items), Commitment (4 items) and leadership (4). The results showed dissatisfaction with the current situation and existing knowledge and information is the highest priority to facilitate the use and institutionalization of this pedagogical innovation. Other conditions include leadership, commitment, availability of resources, time, participation in decision-making, and rewards and / or encourage are next in order of rank.