PA178: Teaching Tutors: The Importance of Measuring Intervention Fidelity

Saturday, February 17, 2024
10:00 AM–10:50 AM CST

  • PMD: 3,6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 8: Promoting Academic Success

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. explain why implementation fidelity is important to consider when evaluating the effects of academic interventions;
  2. identify how intervention fidelity moderates the relationship between student characteristics and academic outcomes; and
  3. integrate practices aimed toward increasing tutor implementation fidelity in their own settings.

Description

Tutoring programs are a viable method to deliver supplemental academic interventions. Learn how improving implementation fidelity amongst tutors is related to student success.

Presenter(s)

Adelle K. Sturgell, MEd, Lehigh University
Ethan R. Van Norman, Lehigh University

Contributor(s)

Peter M. Nelson, David C. Parker

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