Teaching · Related Services

Is the intervention still being delivered the way it was planned?

Set the components, the criterion and how often to check, then log each check. The summary shows adherence and dose over time and whether self-report and observation tell the same story.

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The fidelity record

One record per intervention group or interventionist. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Adherence and dose for every check, the trend against your criterion, the self-report gap, agreement problems and the next check date.
Who it is for
School psychologists, behavior analysts, interventionists, program evaluators and MTSS coordinators.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved record per group; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the checks; export and import a file.
Access
$12 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 Related Services toolkit ($99) 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 Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
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Drawn for this page. Adherence asks whether the steps were done as written; dose asks whether the sessions ran as often and as long as planned.

How to use it

  1. Count the steps on your fidelity checklist for one session.
  2. Set the criterion before the first check, not after.
  3. Mix self-report with observed or recorded checks.
  4. Have two people score the same session now and then, and enter their agreement.
  5. Decide ahead of time what the team does when a check falls short.

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What the organizer covers

Two numbers, not one

Adherence is the share of protocol components delivered as written. Dose is how much of the planned time was delivered. A lesson can follow every step and still be cut to half its length.

Why self-report is not enough

Studies of school-based interventions find that implementers often rate their own fidelity higher than observers do. The organizer shows the gap when both kinds of check are logged.

Before judging the intervention

If fidelity was low, poor student progress may say little about the intervention itself. Fix delivery first, then judge the results.

Sources

  1. Durlak, J. A., and DuPre, E. P. (2008). Implementation matters: A summary of research on the influence of implementation on program outcomes and the factors affecting implementation. American Journal of Community Psychology, 41, 327 to 350.
  2. Sanetti, L. M. H., and Kratochwill, T. R. (Eds.) (2014). Treatment integrity: A foundation for evidence-based practice in applied psychology. American Psychological Association.
  3. Gresham, F. M., Gansle, K. A., and Noell, G. H. (1993). Treatment integrity in applied behavior analysis with children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 26(2), 257 to 263.
  4. National Center on Intensive Intervention. Fidelity resources for data-based individualization.

The example intervention and checks are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.