Levels of Measurement
This level of measurement is equal intervals and 0 point.
Consistency of the instrument.
What is reliability?
The process of specifying what we mean by a term.
What is conceptualization?
If change does happen in your target, the instrument should be able to pick it up.
What is sensitive to change?
Equal intervals
What is interval ?
What is validity?
A mental image that summarizes a set of similar observations, feelings, or ideas.
What is a concept?
The measure does not change the target by the simple act of measurement.
What is non-reactive?
Categories in a certain order
What is Ordinal?
The weakest way to try demonstrating construct validity.
What is face validity?
Preferences about the future, what the client would like to be, to do or would prefer to happen when the intervention is completed.
What are ultimate goals?
Self-report measures, filled out by client that are short, easy to administer and easy to complete.
What are rapid assessment instruments?
Categories
How well an instrument covers the range of meanings included within a concept that is being measured.
Limited or intermediate versions of the ultimate goal; what will your client think, feel and do when the problem is no longer in existence.
What are objectives?
The measure most accurately represents the real target, goes to the heart of the concept that you are trying to measure.
What is direct?
The instrument predicts or forecasts accurately some sort of outcome/ external variable.
What is Criterion-Related Validity?
Conceptualization helps to translate portions of an abstract theory into testable hypotheses involving specific variables.
What is deductive research?
To choose measures that will facilitate decisions about the course of practice.
What is relevant to intervention planning?