Measuring Implementation in Schools: Levels of Use

This Levels of Use (LoU) manual focuses on behaviors and how individuals react with respect to a specific change. It can help determine the extent an innovation is being implemented using three levels of nonuse and five levels of use.

The manual discusses using a focused interview and the LoU chart to assess use.

Click here to view a video about the Levels of Use.

Other Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) Publications:

SEDL offers several publications so you can apply the CBAM when you introduce a new program, undertake research in a school setting, or launch an innovation in a school. The complete set of CBAM literature includes:

• Taking Charge of Change - a readable introduction to the CBAM method.
• Measuring Implementation in Schools: The Concerns-Based Adoption Model
  • Measuring Implementation in Schools: The Stages of Concern Questionnaire
  • Measuring Implementation in Schools: Levels of Use
  • Measuring Implementation in Schools: Innovation Configurations
• A Manual for Assessing Open-Ended Statements of Concern about an Innovation
• Measuring Change Facilitator Stages of Concern: A Manual for Use of the CFSoC Questionnaire

To facilitate data collection and analysis, SEDL now offers an online version of The Stages of Concern Questionnaire.

CBAM Training:

SEDL delivers CBAM professional development sessions where participants learn to:

• Recognize the seven different reactions that educators experience when implementing a new program
• Use the Stages of Concern Questionnaire (SoCQ) to evaluate staff’s reactions, feelings, and attitudes
• Apply the Levels of Use (LoU) to document the extent of implementation
• Describe the ways that educators adapt innovations to their situations
• Use Innovation Configurations (IC) to measure how individuals are implementing a program or practice