The Rand Change Agent Study Revisited: Macro Perspectives and Micro Realities

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The Rand Change Agent Study Revisited: Macro Perspectives and Micro Realities

Abstract/Description

The Rand Change Agent study, undertaken from 1973–1978, indicated a significant shift in the ways people thought about affecting planned change in education. Rand found that effective projects were characterized by a process of mutual adaptation rather than uniform implementation, and that local factors (rather than federal program guidelines or project methods) dominated project outcomes. Revisiting these findings in light of today's changed practices and understandings reinforces some of Rand's findings and suggests modifications in others. This reconsideration also underscores the essential contribution of teachers' perspectives as informant and as a guide to policy and suggests that the challenge lies in understanding how policy can enable and facilitate effective practice.

Author/creator

McLaughlin, Milbrey W.

Date

1990

In publication

Educational Researcher

Volume

19

Issue

9

Pages

11-16

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Reflection/Retrospective

Language

en

Open access/full-text available

en Yes

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

0013-189X

DOI

10.3102/0013189X019009011

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals)

Item on ERIC (ED342085)

Citation

McLaughlin, M. W. (1990). The Rand Change Agent Study Revisited: Macro Perspectives and Micro Realities. Educational Researcher, 19(9), 11–16. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X019009011

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