Teaching · For Teachers

Before you judge an intervention, check it was delivered.

Mark each planned component as delivered, in part or skipped, record minutes and sessions against the plan and rate the quality of delivery. The summary scores adherence and dose and tells you whether slow progress says something about the intervention or about how it was delivered.

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The fidelity check

One check per session or week, keyed by a group or interventionist code. The example is made up.

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What you get

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What you finish with: For each check, adherence by component, dose in minutes and sessions, quality ratings and engagement, with percentage scores, the parts to fix and a plain call on whether the data can be read as a fair test.
Who it is for: Reading interventionists, special education teachers, MTSS and data teams, and the colleagues or supervisors who observe interventions.
Format: Browser checklist with a components table. Several saved records; printed with the summary or as a blank observation form; CSV of the components table; export and import a file.
Access: $5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the For Teachers toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives: The For Teachers space in Caveat Teaching.
Support: Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

Drawn for this page. If half the recipe was skipped, the cake tells you about the cooking, not the recipe. Fidelity is the same check for an intervention.

How to use it

Start a record with a group or interventionist code and the date.
Name the intervention and list its planned components from the lesson plan or manual.
Mark each component as written, in part or not delivered.
Enter planned and actual minutes and sessions, and what time was lost to.
Rate the quality of delivery, then read the summary before the team looks at student data.

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What the check is for

Four dimensions

Research on implementation describes fidelity in several dimensions: adherence (the components delivered as designed), exposure or dose (how much was delivered), quality of delivery, and how the students respond. Scoring them separately shows whether a shortfall came from skipped parts, lost time or the way lessons were taught.

Why it comes first

In a multi-tiered system, teams decide whether to keep, change or intensify an intervention from progress data. Those data are only a fair test when the intervention was delivered close to plan. Many teams treat about 80% as the line for a closer look; it is a working convention, not a research cutoff.

What this form is not

It is not a teacher evaluation. It describes delivery so the team can support it. Records use a code, never a student or staff name, and stay in this browser.

Sources

Dane, A. V., & Schneider, B. H. (1998). Program integrity in primary and early secondary prevention: Are implementation effects out of control? Clinical Psychology Review, 18(1), 23–45.
Carroll, C., Patterson, M., Wood, S., Booth, A., Rick, J., & Balain, S. (2007). A conceptual framework for implementation fidelity. Implementation Science, 2, 40.
National Center on Intensive Intervention. Fidelity resources and the data-based individualization process (intensiveintervention.org).
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99.

The example group is made up. The check describes delivery; it is not a personnel evaluation and does not judge the students. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.