Standards Implementation in Ohio: Local Perspectives on Policy, Challenges, Resources, and Instruction

This report examines select questions from a spring 2016 survey administered to districts, principals, and teachers in the state of Ohio. The results presented focus on responses about the state’s standards-based reform policies as described by the policy attributes (Porter, Floden, Freeman, Schmidt, & Schwille, 1988), the theoretical framework that undergirds C-SAIL’s research. The framework suggests that five attributes are related to successful policy implementation, and that the stronger each attribute is, the better implementation will be