Measurement Basics
Measurement is defined as this assignment process.
What is the assignment of numbers to objects or events?
This concept refers to the consistency and repeatability of a measure.
What is reliability?
This acute measure assesses consciousness level and injury severity using eye, verbal, and motor responses.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)?
In the ICF model, this term refers to involvement in life situations.
What is participation?
This measure evaluates frequency of engagement in activities and includes Out and About, Productivity, and Social Relations.
What is the PART-O?
Improved outcome measures suggest this about treatment.
What is “the treatment is effective?”
At least this many measurements are required to demonstrate treatment effectiveness.
What is two?
This concept describes whether an instrument measures what it claims to measure.
What is validity?
Scores on the Glasgow Coma Scale range from this low number to this high number.
What are 3 and 15?
This WHO model considers biological, psychological, social, and cultural influences on disability.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
The MPAI-4 Participation Index includes these two life domains among its eight items.
What are work/school and money management?
If a measure worsens, providers should consider changing this.
What is the treatment plan or intervention?
The first measurement taken before intervention is called this.
What is baseline measurement?
A reliable measure should produce similar results across these two situations.
What are different providers and different facilities?
This cognitive scale used after coma is commonly called the Rancho Scale.
What is the Rancho Los Amigos Level of Cognitive Functioning Scale?
According to the ICF, these are defined as the execution of tasks.
What are activities?
Physical independence, occupation, and cognitive independence are subscales of this measure.
What is the CHART-SF?
These two problems occur when a test is either too difficult or too easy for the person being assessed.
What are floor effects and ceiling effects?
This branch of psychology studies the design, qualities, administration, and interpretation of tests.
What is psychometrics?
Measures developed without testing may lack these two important psychometric qualities.
What are reliability and validity?
The Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory includes these three subscales.
What are Abilities, Adjustment, and Participation?
This occurs when a person lacks full engagement in a life situation.
What is participation restriction?
Input from persons with TBI, families, advocates, and researchers helped classify the three domains of this participation measure.
What is the PART-O?
Researchers rely on measurement to develop this in rehabilitation.
What is best practice?
This type of assessment is administered the same way to all individuals to allow comparison across people.
What is a standardized assessment?
A measure that consistently produces the same incorrect result would be described this way.
What is reliable but not valid?
This post-acute participation measure assesses physical independence, mobility, occupation, and social integration.
What is the CHART-SF?
Learning and applying knowledge, communication, and mobility are examples of these within the ICF.
What are domains of functioning?
This emerging concept reflects whether a person feels valued, included, and part of the community.
What is community enfranchisement?
Participation is considered one of the primary outcomes of this process.
What is rehabilitation?