Understanding the "Why" of Implementation: Factors Affecting Teachers' Use of Everyday Mathematics

• In Event: 70.067 - Poster Session 15
  In Poster Session: 70.067-7 - Division H, Section 1 Poster Session

Abstract

Understanding contextual supports and barriers to enactment and continued use of evidence-based innovations requires rigorous investigation of two important aspects of implementation: 1) the status of innovation enactment (the extent to which an innovation is enacted at a given time in a particular context); as well as 2) the implementation process (the dynamic interaction of a range of contextual factors on innovation enactment). This paper reports on a study that applied our theory of implementation measurement in the field to reveal key contextual factors associated with teachers’ enactment of the Everyday Mathematics program. We include a discussion of the instruments and approaches to analysis.

Authors

• Amy E. Cassata, University of Chicago

• Dae Yeop Kim, University of Chicago

• Jeanne Century, University of Chicago