This is the site of the Applied Research on Science Materials Implementation: Bringing Measurement of Fidelity of Implementation (FOI) to Scale project. This three-year, National Science Foundation-funded project has two main goals. The first goal is to measure the extent and nature of fidelity of implementation of K-8 science and mathematics instructional materials in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The second goal is to develop a suite of instruments to measure the fidelity of implementation of science and mathematics instructional materials at the K-8 level.
Over three years, the project will address the first goal by measuring the nature of FOI in CPS schools and identifying "typologies" of implementation. When data collection is complete, we will conduct analyses to explore relationships between these typologies and student outcomes. We will address the second goal by producing instruments for measuring FOI of five specific curricula (science programs FOSS, STC, Science Companion, SEPUP, and mathematics program Everyday Mathematics) and a User’s Guide that describes procedures for using the instruments and adapting them for use with other instructional materials.