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ERIC Number: EJ1237489
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Dec
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-189X
EISSN: EISSN-1935-102X
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Using Implementation Fidelity to Aid in Interpreting Program Impacts: A Brief Review
Heather C. Hill; Anna Erickson
Educational Researcher, v48 n9 p590-598 Dec 2019
Poor program implementation constitutes one explanation for null results in trials of educational interventions. For this reason, researchers often collect data about implementation fidelity when conducting such trials. In this article, we document whether and how researchers report and measure program fidelity in recent cluster-randomized trials. We then create two measures--one describing the level of fidelity reported by authors and another describing whether the study reports null results--and examine the correspondence between the two. We also explore whether fidelity is influenced by study size, type of fidelity measured and reported, and features of the intervention. We find that as expected, fidelity level relates to student outcomes; we also find that the presence of new curriculum materials positively predicts fidelity level.
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Related Records: ED671918
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1348669; 0918383
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