Fidelity of Implementation : Accordance of Delivering a Program and Its Intended Design

Abstract

The article introduces a research of correspondence of the intended and the realized intervention pr educational program denoted as fidelity of implementation. It defines the concept of fidelity of implementation, its aspects and brings a short review of research in this area.

It discusses risks and challenges of the research of fidelity of implementation in the Czech Republic embodied especially in a different tradition of designing the curriculum than in countries where the sesearch of fidelity of implementation is extended

Keywords

• Educational research
• fidelity of implementation
• projected curriculum
• realized curriculum