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SUMMARY:Wednesdays @ NICO: Ken Frank\, Distributiion of Knowledge & Organizational Change
DESCRIPTION:Ken Frank\, Professor of Measurement and Quantitative Methods; Counseling\, Educational Psychology and Special Education and Associate Professor of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University.    (co-authored with Anne E. Krause\, Michigan State University; and William R. Penuel\, SRI International). Abstract: Current conceptualizations of organizational factors that affect intra-organizational diffusion attend either to the structure of relations among organizational members or to levels of knowledge of the innovation\, but rarely to both. Here we integrate the two by locating knowledge of how to implement an innovation within the social network of the organization. In particular\, we use Claude Shannon’s indices developed for communications systems to characterize the extent to which knowledge flows are entropic – widely distributed throughout a network. We find that the lower the entropy of the flow of knowledge from subgroup sources the greater the increase in implementation of localized reforms in nineteen elementary schools. That is\, the fewer subgroups responsible for supporting a reform the greater the school-wide increase in implementation of the reform. Seminar will be followed by a NICO Coffee Hour. http://www.northwestern.edu/nico/events/index.html#seminars
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