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RWB Media and Events

The Media page is the home of Researchers Without Borders project podcasts and webinars. These podcasts and webinars provide an opportunity for others to hear what researchers, practitioners, and program developers in various fields have to say about RWB projects.

If you missed a live webinar that you are interested in, they will be archived here.

Please send a message to media@researcherswithoutborders.org if you would like to suggest topics for future podcasts or webinars.

Upcoming Webinars on Fidelity of Implementation

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• May 19 2010

  Carol O’Donnell

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  Education researchers are being asked to conduct rigorous, scientifically based studies of K-12 curriculum interventions; therefore, the need for measuring fidelity of implementation and empirically relating it to outcomes is warranted to ensure internal and external validity. Few studies guide researchers on how fidelity of implementation to core curriculum interventions can be measured and related to outcomes, particularly within efficacy and effectiveness studies, where the requirements for fidelity measures differ. This webinar attempts to clarify the definition, conceptualization, and measurement of fidelity of implementation and to guide future researchers in understanding how fidelity of implementation can be used to adjust or interpret outcome measures. Six concrete steps for assessing fidelity of implementation in evaluations of educational interventions will be provided.

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• May 26 2010

  Sharon Lynch

  This webinar is a narrative tracing the development of fidelity of implementation measures for a study of the effectiveness of 3 different middle school science curriculum units. Initially, the study was based on a theory of change that predicted that student outcomes would be affected by teachers’ ability to find and enact instructional strategies that were embedded in the curriculum materials. However, when similar strategies were found in comparison teachers’ classes, it was clear that better measures of fidelity were needed. The search to find them suggests that the initial theory of change was too simple. Not only are teachers implicated in fidelity of implementation, so too are the middle school students who participated in the curriculum unit’s activities. The suite of fidelity measures helped us to develop a more interesting and complex theory of change about these science curriculum materials and student learning.

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• June 9 2010

  David Cordray

  This webinar will focus on use of theories of change and logical models to identify and measure core components in interventions. The roles of infidelity in the intervention and control conditions will be discussed, along with the need to assess the “achieved relative strength” of the intervention-control contrast. Approaches to including evidence about fidelity and achieved relative strength into outcome models will also be described and illustrated.

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• July 7 2010

  Jeanne Century

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  This webinar will describe work conducted at the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education reform that focuses on the development of a suite of instruments for measuring fidelity of implementation (FOI) across multiple programs. The webinar will include a description of CEMSE’s conceptual framework that underlies the FOI measurement approach and then will show how that approach is operationalized via a critical component approach to FOI measurement. The webinar will also include a description of how the instruments are customized for each of the programs of the original NSF supported project and how they can also be adapted to other programs.

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  You might benefit from reading "A Framework for Measuring Fidelity of Implementation: A Foundation for Shared Language and Accumulation of Knowledge" in the June, 2010 issue of the American Journal of Evaluation prior to the webinar.

• July 28 2010

  Gene Hall
  Considering Fidelity of Implementation from a CBAM perspective: Innovation Configurations

  The Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) has three Diagnostic Dimensions: Stages of Concern (SoC), Levels of Use (LoU), and Innovation Configurations (IC). Fidelity of implementation is addressed with the IC construct. With IC the operational form, a.ka. “configuration,” of the innovation that is in use by each implementer is determined. The information for determining configurations usually entails a combination of observation, interview, and artifact review. The information is summarized on an Innovation Configuration Map, which is unique to each innovation. Development and use of IC Maps will be the central topic in this webinar.

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