ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on current knowledge and directions in research on implementation of educational innovations. Implementation is the process of altering existing practice in order to achieve more effectively certain desired learning outcomes for students. The terms innovation, change, and revision are all frequently used in the context of describing implementation. Problems in implementing many policies and programs may be less those of dogmatic resistance to change and more those of the difficulties related to planning and coordinating a multi-level social process involving hundreds of people. The one common factor underlying effective principles and plans is the recognition that the success of change is dependent solely on what people do and are prepared to do. There are two broad implications which author would like to consider: one concerns the notion of implementation outcomes or success, the other relates to problems on how to do implementation research given the fidelity vs variation possibilities.
