 The relationship between buy-in and implementation: Measuring teacher buy-in to a high school reform effortEric M. Grebing, Julie A. Edmunds and Nina P. Arshavsky Evaluation and Program Planning, 2023, vol. 97, issue C Abstract: ‘Buy-in,’ or the extent to which individuals believe in and actively support interventions, is an important but understudied component of program evaluation. This paper articulates a conceptual framework and describes survey scales for measuring buy-in. The paper applies the framework and survey to a program evaluation of an effort implementing the early college model in 16 high schools. The paper empirically connects teacher buy-in to perceptions of program implementation. In our main regression analysis, we found a significant relationship between teacher buy-in and model implementation. Through a dominance analysis, we also found that items related to collective buy-in were stronger predictors of implementation than items measuring individual buy-in. Our results suggest that it is important to measure both individual and collective buy-in because both are predictive of implementation. The survey items and framework presented could be of use to evaluators through modification for use in implementation studies of other program evaluations. Keywords: PreK-12 education; Quantitative methods; Buy-in; Surveys; Evaluation practice (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:epplan:v:97:y:2023:i:c:s0149718923000010 DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2023.102224 Access Statistics for this article Evaluation and Program Planning is currently edited by Jonathan A. Morell More articles in Evaluation and Program Planning from Elsevier |
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