Professional Development Specialist Inter-rater Reliability of Coaching Fidelity Scoring in a Statewide Professional Development Program

Date Presented 04/20/2023 Intervention integrity is considered central to fidelity and the monitoring of intervention fidelity is important as a demonstrated mediator of outcomes. Documenting reliability among raters is critical to these functions. We describe development and field testing of a sensitive, research-based coaching fidelity measure to present study finding investigating whether professional development specialists maintain acceptable interrater reliability when using the measure. Implications are outlined. Primary Author and Speaker: Scott Tomchek Additional Authors and Speakers: Winnie Dunn, Lauren Little