Key Measurement Concepts
Overview of Single System Designs
Goals,Objectives, and Measures
Types of Single System Designs
Specifying Targets of Interventions
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A general term for the consistency of measurements
What is reliability
100
Dictionary Definition
What is a conceptual definition
100
Self-observations of behaviors and experiences made in the client's normal environment when they occur, or at least close to the time they occur.
What is a client log.
100
Type of design utilized when an individual's behavior is so severe that a researcher can not wait to establish a baseline.
What is a BAB design
100
Limited or intermediate versions of the ultimate goal.
What is objectives
200
Level of measurement in which categories are rank ordered on a scale from less to more for some target.
What is ordinal level of measurement.
200
"The working definitions" A definition that assigns meaning to a concept in terms of the activities or operations necessary to measure it.
What is an operational definition
200
Typically the most valid form of measure because it is the most direct expression of a client's concerns.
What is a client observation.
200
An intervention design. Single phase design
What is a B design
200
Specific object of intervention that is relevant in given situation
What is a target
300
Level of measurement which places items in mutually exclusive categories.
What is nominal levels of measurement
300
The backbone of practice evaluation. Most commonly used design.
What is a single subject design
300
Defined as categories of perceptions or experiences, or groupings of objects and events
What is a concept
300
True experimental design that allows for casual interference.
What is multiple baseline designs
300
Breaking down complex problems in to smaller components.
What is to partialize.
400
The Fahrenheit scale is an example of this level of measurement.
What is interval level
400
The term used to refer to whether or not an instrument measures what the instrument was designed or supposed to measure
What is validity
400
Type of measure sometimes called a target complaint scale, self-anchored scale, or IRS.
What is an Individualized Rating Scale
400
Type of design that consists of a baseline phase and an intervention phase.
What is an AB design
500
This level of measurement provides the same information as interval-level measures, plus they have a defined zero point.
What is ratio level
500
The term describing the ease of use for clients.
What is utility
500
What does the acronym SMART stand for?
What is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant/Realistic, and Time-Limited
500
A three phase design consisting of a baseline phase, intervention phase, and a a withdrawal of intervention phase.
What is ABA design
500
Preferences about the future, what the client would like to be or to happen after the intervention.
What is an ultimate goal
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