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A set of empirical procedures used to observe changes in an identified target that is measured repeatedly over time.
What is a Single System Design
In research, this type of definition is defined as something that you can measure.
What is an operational definition?
In this level of measurement, the numbers in the variable are used only to classify the data. In this level of measurement, words, letters, and alpha-numeric symbols can be used.
(Taken from https://www.statisticssolutions.com/data-levels-of-measurement/)
What is a nominal measurement?
This type of measurement error happens by chance, normal fluctuations or items canceling each other out
What is a random measurement error?
This type of scale, used by the client or patient, is used as a form of measurement for: Intensity, Thoughts and feelings and Change over time/degree of change.
What is an Individualized Rating Scale?
A time period during which a particular activity occurs
What is a phase?
In research, this is defined as an object or terms dictionary definition
What is a conceptual definition?
This level of measurement depicts some ordered relationship among the variable’s observations.
(Taken from https://www.statisticssolutions.com/data-levels-of-measurement/)
What is an ordinal measurement?
This type of measurement error occurs through a bias or the average is influenced to go in a specific direction.
What is a systematic measurement error?
These are a form of structured diary where the client can make self observations regarding behaviors, thoughts, feelings and the times that these events occurred.
What is a client log?
The planned, systematic collection of information regarding the target before the intervention
Baseline
What client would like to do, be or prefer to happen after the intervention is complete.
What is an Ultimate Goal?
This level of measurement not only classifies and orders the measurements, but it also specifies that the distances between each interval on the scale are equivalent along the scale from low interval to high interval.
(Taken from https://www.statisticssolutions.com/data-levels-of-measurement/)
What is an interval measurement?
This is used to quantify internal consistency/ reliability. The higher, the better, best possible=1
What is coefficient alpha or Cronbach alpha
This occurs when the client adopts a role inconsistent with his or her actual beliefs, feelings, or behaviors (good client, bad client)
What is reactivity?
Planned changes when practitioner performs certain actions in order to reach specific objectives of practice.
What is an intervention
Very specific versions of the ultimate goal, asks who will do what by when under what conditions?
What is an intermediate or facilitative goal
This term means that a test or measurement is accurately measuring what it is supposed to.
What is validity?
These must exist for a relationship to be considered this:
A relationship must exist between the two variables
The relationship must be non-spurious.
There should be a time interval between one variable and the other
What is a causal relationship?
These types of measures have gone through rigorous psychometric validation. These types of measures are regarded for having high levels of reliability, validity and sensitivity.
What are standardized measurements?
The practitioner, the client or designated others observe and report changes in identified target over regular time intervals
Time series design
This is known as the process by which one focuses on one problem and works to define it as specifically as possible.
What is selecting a target?
This is a measure of the stability or consistency of a test or measure.
What is reliability?
This is the most frequently used single subject design.
What is a B, or, intervention only design?
This is a method of collecting information in which the evaluator watches the subject in his or her typical environment without altering or intruding on that environment.
What is Direct Observation?