Educational interventions: Challenging the limitations of traditional fidelity of implementation

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• Fiona Jackson, Faculty of Education
• Wednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:00
• Room 2S5, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

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An unresolved issue in the field of implementation research is how to conceptualise and evaluate the success of educational interventions. Notably, whether to take into consideration intervention adaptations introduced by teachers; referred to as the fidelity-adaptation debate. Whilst my study identified adaptations that may compromise an intervention’s overall theoretical objectives (infidelity), I focussed on adaptations that offered valuable contributions to implementations (positive infidelity). In doing so, I created a framework for highlighting teachers’ actions which may contribute positively to the implementation process. The principles underlying this framework may be applied to any education programme or curricula where fidelity is a concern.

This talk is part of the Faculty of Education Research Students' Association (FERSA) Lunchtime Seminars 2014-2015 series.

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