Basic Terminology
Forming Goals
Measurement
100
Known as the backbone of evaluation-informed practice, this involves continual observation of one client system.
What is single-subject design?
100
This what a client would like to do, be, or prefer to happen after the intervention is complete.
What is an ultimate goal?
100
This term refers to the consistency of a measurement.
What is reliability?
200
This is also known as the "dictionary definition" of a term.
What is a conceptual definition?
200
This is a very specific version of the ultimate goal.
What is an objective? (or intermediate goal)
200
This level of measurement has equal intervals and a 0 point.
What is a scale?
300
This is the period of time during which an outcome is measured repeatedly in the absence of the intervention.
What is baseline?
300
This person should have the majority of the say in developing goals, whenever possible.
Who is the client?
300
This type of measure involves the administration of the same scale items to different people using the same administration and scoring procedures.
What is a standardized measure?
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