Descriptor
| Change Agents | 7 |
| Educational Innovation | 7 |
| Higher Education | 6 |
| Adoption (Ideas) | 5 |
| Change Strategies | 5 |
| Check Lists | 5 |
| Diffusion | 5 |
| Evaluation Methods | 5 |
| Prediction | 5 |
| Administrators | 4 |
| Decision Making | 4 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
| Manning, Brad A. | 7 |
Publication Type
| Guides - General | 3 |
| Tests/Questionnaires | 3 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textManning, Brad A. – 1974
The Trouble-Shooting Checklist (TSC) is an empirically-developed, descriptive instrument which is based on the responses of six educational change agents. It enables an agent to predict a given institution's success in adopting innovations by ordering its levels of concerns and innovation usage. It focuses on two types of innovation:…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies
Manning, Brad A. – 1973
The first section of this manual contains a selective review of organizational change literature which focuses on predictive institutional variables as they affect the adoption-diffusion process. The second section describes the development of the Trouble Shooting Checklist (TSC). The third section presents two Trouble Shooting Checklists (TSC-A…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies
Manning, Brad A. – 1975
This paper describes the continued development of the "Trouble Shooting" Checklists. These checklists are based on change agent responses and are designed to be predictive of an institution's change potential for the adoption of innovations. The development of two new instruments is described, both innovation-free. One applies to higher…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Check Lists, Educational Assessment
Manning, Brad A. – 1976
The "Trouble Shooting" Checklist (TSC) for Higher Educational Settings has been developed to assist educational change agents, faculty, and administrators concerned with change, in their assessment of organizational variables predictive of a department's potential for successfully adopting innovations. The higher educational based TSC is both…
Descriptors: Administration, Change Agents, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation
Manning, Brad A. – 1973
The Trouble Shooting Checklist-A (TSC-A) is a predictive instrument to aid the educational change agent in defining variables within institutions or organizations which are concerned with adopting modules in deciding whether or not an institution is suited for a particular innovation. These five dimensions comprise the major scales: Organization…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents
Manning, Brad A. – 1973
The Trouble Shooting Checklist-B (TSC-B) is a predictive instrument to aid the educational change agent in defining variables within institutions or organizations which are concerned with adopting a psychological assessment battery with some form of personal counseling orientation in deciding whether or not an institution is suited for a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies
Manning, Brad A. – 1976
The "Trouble Shooting Checklist" (TSC) is a diagnostic and predictive instrument designed to aid educational change agents, faculty, and administrators in estimating the effects of particular variables on an institution's potential for successfully adopting innovations. The TSC consists of 100 descriptive statements that are broken down into seven…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Diffusion, Educational Innovation
