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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sch. 2014 Nov 28;52(2):181–195. doi: 10.1002/pits.21815

Table 2.

Mean Fidelity of Implementation* by Time and Intervention Strategy for Average and Best Fidelity

Intervention
Time Discrete Trial Teaching
M (SD)
Pivotal Response Training
M (SD)
Functional Routines
M (SD)
Overall Fidelity
M (SD)
Average Fidelity Across all Assessments During Time Period (%)
 Time 1 78.54 (24.33) 53.41 (24.09) 56.43 (16.42) 65.14 (16.47)
 Time 2 73.94 (21.16) 58.43 (26.66) 69.77 (19.05) 68.45 (15.39)
 Time 3 71.04 (27.79) 68.39 (20.25) 75.56 (24.17) 71.66 (20.01)
 Time 4 80.46 (17.55) 60.19 (21.39) 78.51 (19.80) 73.58 (12.98)

Best Fidelity for Each Time Period (%)
 Time 1 81.64 (24.93) 54.64 (25.60) 63.53 (20.38) 69.86 (18.00)
 Time 2 84.53 (19.77) 65.22 (23.38) 79.96 (21.33) 77.72 (16.28)
 Time 3 79.21 (26.94) 73.78 (21.21) 81.59 (23.78) 81.33 (11.19)
 Time 4 90.74 (13.00) 74.16 (21.96) 91.45 (16.50) 85.70 (11.19)
*

Fidelity of implementation is defined as the percentage of strategy components implemented correctly.