Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

and his Harvard colleagues (4) in their attempt to implement a modu-
lar change in a small elementary school. These were:
1) Staff resistance;
2) Alisconceptions of the model and roles within it;
3j ‘Lack of expertise;
-1) Lack of materials anti 1.csources;
5) Incompatibility with the model.
It became apparent to us that not only were there some problems of
implementation. many of them were problems that had been raised
elsewhere some years before as will be related in part below.
We determineri that, ha*.-ing uncovered our own choke points or bttle-
necks, we should press on while hceding the following speculation of
Doll and his associates (lb):
,, . . . the wheel does have to be eternally re-i:lventcd.. . ;
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unless you go through every agonizing step yourself, what -
ever you accomplish ultimately will be superiicial and
unimportant.. .Each of us must discover for ourselves
where it hurts the most, but the experience of others may
be helpful in leaking how to cure the wound. ”
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