An Adaptive Role Strategy: One Technique for Studying Participants' Role in Educational Organizations

Abstract

The Adaptive Role Strategy that is described in this article is de signed to improve and expand the conduct of role studies. The strategy has five stages: Generation of an Idealized Model, Adap tation of the Model, Revision of the Model, Assessment of the Per ceived Role Performance of an Innovation, Service or Institutional Activity, and Utilization of Assessment Results. The stages are il lustrated by reference to the literature on a broad range of role studies.