Fidelity of Implementation and Implementation Research Community Group
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Fidelity of Implementation and Implementation Research Community Group
This group is for people who are interested in issues pertaining to defining and measuring FOI and exploring ways to use FOI data in research and to inform practice.
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Implementation members - Check out the Global Implementation Conference (GIC), August 15-17th in Washington, DC! For details, see www.implementationconference.org
June 16th, 2011 07:36
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I see that people are joining this group....but I don't know what your issues are...? Toss them on the wall or post in the forum...maybe others in the group can help.
December 13th, 2010 02:50
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My issue as an evaluation researcher is that program developers often don't think about fidelity of implementation in advance. They hire an evaluator because it is a requirement of their grant and then expect us to hit the ground running and evaluate their program without ever having thought about what fidelity looks like and how we might measure it. How can we get the discussion of fidelity to occur earlier in the process of program development?
February 29th, 2012 09:26
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Hey Raquel - I think that your frustration is one that comes not only from a fidelity point of view but rather is shared by many evaluators who see that program developers frequently don't clearly articulate their theory of action - or the essential components of their model - as they develop it. If only we could start with a very clearly articulated and defined model with each component explicitly identified, that would make our work much easier. However, since that's often not the case, we recognize that part of our work as evaluators or researchers is working with the client or partner to go through the process of identifying the model. In CEMSE, we do that using our innovation implementation framework that helps us organize the components of the model into categories. Then, we, as the evaluators or researchers, make decisions about the best way to measure those components. But...ultimately, I think that your question is a long-standing one in evaluation - which is how to get the evaluators involved as early as possible. Since that often doesn't happen, the steps we can take is to insist on taking/making the time to get clear on what the model is and to help the developers clearly articulate what their intentions are for implementing that model.
March 2nd, 2012 07:46
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Absolutely agree. If you don't know what you're evaluating (and if the developers don't), you have nowhere to start. In the case of my organization (we evaluate/support program replication), the program developers didn't think about fidelity because they never had the intention of translating the program to new contexts. We started with the challenge of getting the program developers to articulate the unique features of the model. This has really become our bible and the framework on which we hang all our support/evaluation.
March 5th, 2012 07:32
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45 people registered so far for the third FOI Webinar with David Cordray.
June 8th, 2010 13:41
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Sally, we're sorry, this is actually an old post from June 2010, so the event has already passed. But please watch RWB for our next webinar series that will be fall 2012!
March 13th, 2012 06:54
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Additional resources mentioned during the Carol O'Donnell webinar can be found in the main resource database (the Resources tab). These include: Dane & Schneider (1998); Dusenbury et al. (2003); O'Donnell (2008); Mowbray et al. (2003); Blakely et al. (1987); O'Donnell et al. (2004).
June 7th, 2010 09:32
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Do you think FOI measures can be used across multiple programs? Share your point of view in the forum.
May 27th, 2010 12:10
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Thanks to Sharon for a great job yesterday. Check out her archived webinar on the media page.
May 27th, 2010 08:27
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