Örgütlerde planlı değişim gerçekleştirilmesi, örgüt geliştirme çabalarının yenilikçi yüzünü temsil eder. Amaç hem örgütün verimliliğine hem de çalışanların örgütteki mutluluğuna katkıda bulunmaktır. Bu çalışma ile planlı değişimin okullarda nasıl uygulanabileceğine yönelik bir çerçeve sunulması amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmada planlı değişimin genel bir modeli kullanılarak, bir özel okulun performans değerlendirme sisteminin değiştirilişi; bu değişime karar verilmesinden, sonuçlarının değerlendirilmesine kadar tüm süreci içerecek şekilde ayrıntılı bir şekilde irdelenmiştir. Çalışmanın eylem araştırması kullanılarak desenlenmiş oluşu, okulda gerçekleştirilen değişimin hikayesini somutlaştırmaya olanak tanımış ve benzeri uygulamaları gerçekleştirmek isteyenler için gerçekçi bir tablo oluşturmuştur.  

The school is a product of civilization. It became necessary because of the division of labor caused by the multiplication of the interests of mankind which made it impossible for the home to continue wholly to care for the training of its children. The history of education must not merely treat of the development of the school, but it must consider education in its broader meaning; that is, as a history of civilization. For this reason some of the great educators of the world who have not been school teachers, must receive consideration.

The Herbart school adheres to this view of education, and has transferred its spirit and method to the schools. The Herbartians have the hardihood, in this age of moral skeptics, to believe not only in moral example but also in moral teaching. (By moral skeptics we mean those who believe in morals but not in moral instruction.) They seek first of all historical materials of the richest moral content, in vivid personification, upon which to nourish the moral spirit of children. If properly treated, this subject matter will soon win the children by its power over feeling and judgment. With Crusoe the child goes through every hardship and success; with Abraham he lives in tents, seeks pastures for his flocks, and generously marches out to the rescue of his kinsmen. He should not read Caesar with a slow and toilsome drag (parsing and construing) that would render a bright boy stupid. If he goes with Caesar at all, he must build an agger, fight battles, construct bridges, and approve or condemn Caesar’s acts. But we doubt the moral value of Caesar’s Gallic wars. By reading Plutarch we may see that the Latins and Greeks, before the days of their degeneracy, nourished their rising youth upon the traditions of their ancestry. The education produced a tough and sinewy brood of moral qualities.