ERIC Number: EJ984777
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Dec
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1098-2140
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How Does Fidelity of Implementation Matter? Using Multilevel Models to Detect Relationships between Participant Outcomes and the Delivery and Receipt of Treatment
Zvoch, Keith
American Journal of Evaluation, v33 n4 p547-565 Dec 2012
Multilevel modeling techniques facilitated examination of relationships between fidelity indicators and outcomes associated with a summer literacy intervention. Three-level growth models were specified to capture the extent to which students experienced instruction and to demonstrate the ways in which dosage-response relationships manifest in program evaluation contexts. The observation that outcome-related deviations from program protocol occurred both at the provider and at the recipient levels suggests that evaluators will often need to conceptualize, measure, and model "treatment fidelity" as a multilevel, multidimensional construct. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Literacy, Summer Programs, College School Cooperation, Intervention, Disadvantaged, Reading Difficulties, Special Needs Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Program Implementation, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Program Evaluation, Evaluators, Fidelity, Relationship, Predictor Variables, Outcomes of Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 1; Grade 2
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Language: English
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Grant or Contract Numbers: R305A090369
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