Our past two posts covered both the “why” of measuring implementation and some of the common challenges to doing so. In this third and final post, we’ll look at what is most useful to measure. Implementation measures are particular to each program and should take into account the specific actions expected of program participants: who…
In our last post, we shared four reasons why educators should be measuring implementation: here we’ll look at four common challenges to strong implementation measurement. 1. Differential definitions. What happens when different units of your program operate with different working definitions of a measure? Take tutoring, for example, in a multi-site program, where each site…
Understanding implementation is critical to both program improvement and program evaluation. But measuring implementation is typically undervalued and often overlooked. This post is one of three in a series that focuses on measuring implementation when evaluating educational programs. “Fidelity of implementation” ranks next to “scientifically based research” on our list of terms thrown about casually,…