Using Visual Performance Feedback to Improve Treatment Fidelity in the Classroom: Benefits and Limitations

2013

Keith Allen
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Visual performance feedback (VPF) is an effective approach to improving fidelity, but is often collected and provided by researchers and its effects are evaluated in terms of its impact on the observee, not the observer. We present 3 small studies in which we evaluate the impact of VPF on the fidelity of both the observer and observee when teachers are the observer and observee. In the first study, teachers collected VPF on staff and assessed how that influenced fidelity using behavior specific praise. In a MBL design, results indicated that VPF produced markedly better fidelity in the observees. In a second study, we evaluated whether using VPF improved the fidelity of the observers themselves. In a MBL design across 5 observers, results showed an immediate and marked improvement in fidelity in 3 of 5 observers when VPF was introduced. Finally, we evaluated the impact of VPF when the observers were highly experienced and the observees were not.

Conference presentations and posters presented

Professionals, Students

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