Teacher Education Instruments

Teacher/Faculty Surveys

Instrument 14: Concerns Questionnaire

Project: KEYSTONE: A Rural Regional Training Program for Excellence in Science & Technology
Bozeman Public Schools, District #7, Bozeman, MT

Funding Source: NSF: Teacher Enhancement (ESIE)

Purpose: To determine what project participants think about their experience during an innovation adoption process

Administered To: Teachers who attended a summer workshop and other workshops conducted throughout the school year devoted to the establishment of self-sustaining science and technology programs that serve the Native American populations and interested females in the mathematics and science profession

Topics Covered:

• Implementation Characteristics: awareness
• Instructional Practices: approach, content, technology
• Instructional Preferences: project involvement
• Limitations & Barriers: classroom resources, collaboration, implementation, interest, need, participation
• Plans & Expectations (Teacher/Faculty): concerns, implementation activities, leadership
• Self-Assessment (Teacher/Faculty): application of instructional methods, awareness, interest
• Background Characteristics & Activities (Teacher/Faculty): current practice, experience, professional development activities, professional preparation/qualification, project involvement
• Demographics (Teacher/Faculty): age, gender

Format/Length: 36 questions, 35 closed- and 1 open-ended, plus 13 demographic questions. The closed-ended items are 8-point Likert scales that range from "0" for "irrelevant" to "7" for "very true." The open-ended item asks participants to provide a brief written response describing their concerns.

Name ___________________________________________________________________

The purpose of this questionnaire is to determine what people who are using or thinking about various programs are concerned about at various times during the innovation adoption process. The items were developed from typical response of school and college teachers who ranged from no knowledge at all of various programs to many years experience in using them. Therefore, a good part of the items on this questionnaire may appear to be of little relevance or irrelevant to you at this time. For the completely irrelevant items, please circle "0" on the scale. Other items will represent those concerns you do have, in varying degrees of intensity, and should be marked higher on the scale.

Please respond to items in terms of your present concerns, or how you feel about your involvement or potential involvement with the Rural Regional Training Model for Excellence in Science Math and Technology Teaching. We do not hold to any one definition of this innovation, so please think of it in terms of your own perception of what it involves. Since this questionnaire is used for a variety of innovations, the name Rural Regional Training Model for Excellence in Science, Math, and Technology Teaching never appears. However, phrases such as "the innovation," "this approach," and "the new system all refer to Rural Regional Training Model for Excellence in Science, Math, and Technology Teaching. Remember to respond to each item in terms of your present concerns about your involvement or potential involvement with Rural Regional Training Model for Excellence in Science, Math, and Technology Teaching.

1.	I am concerned about students' attitude toward this innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
2.	I now know of some other approaches that might work better.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
3.	I don't know even know what the innovation is.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
4.	I am concerned about not having enough time to organize myself each day.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
5.	I would like to help another facility in their use of innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
6.	I have a very limited knowledge about the innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
7.	I would like to know the effect of reorganization on my professional status.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8.	I am concerned about conflict between my interests and my responsibilities.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
9.	I am concerned about revising my use of innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
10.	I would like to develop working relationships with both our faculty and outside faculty using this innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
11.	I am concerned about how the innovation affects students.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
12.	I would like to know who will make the decisions in the new system.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
13.	I am not concerned about this innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
14.	I would like to know the possibility of using the innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
15.	I would like to know what resources are available if we decide to adopt this innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
16.	I am concerned about my inability to manage all the innovation requires.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
17.	I would like to know how my teaching or administration is supposed to change.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
18.	I would like to familiarize other departments or persons with the progress of this new approach.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
19.	I am concerned about evaluating my impact on students.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
20.	I would like to revise the innovation's instructional approach.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
21.	I am completely occupied with other things.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
22.	I would like to modify our use of the innovation based on the experiences of our students.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
23.	Although I don't know about this innovation, I am concerned about things in the area.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
24.	I would like to excite my students about their part in this approach.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
25.	I am concerned about time spent working with nonacademic problems related to this innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
26.	I would like to know what the use of the innovation will require in the immediate future.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
27.	I would like to coordinate my efforts with others to maximize the innovation's effects.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
28.	I would like to have more information on time and energy commitments required by this innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
29.	I would like to know what other faculty are doing in this area.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
30.	At this time, I am not interested in learning about this innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
31.	I would like to determine how to supplement, enhance, or replace the innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
32.	I would like to use feedback from students to change the program.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
33.	I would like to know how my role will change when I am using the innovation.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
34.	Coordination of tasks and people is taking too much of my time.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
35.	I would like to know how this innovation is better than what we have now.	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT RURAL TEACHING TRAINING, WHAT ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT?
(Do not say what you think others are concerned about, but only what concerns you now. Please write in complete sentences, and please be frank.

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PLEASE COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING: