Key Characteristics
Levels of Measurement
Goals
Evaluation
100
The consistency of a measurement instrument.
What is validity
100
This level of measurement differentiates items based on their categories.
What is Nominal Measurement.
100
This is what the client would like to do, be or prefer to happen after the intervention is complete.
What is Ultimate Goals.
200
The accuracy of a measurement instrument.
What is Reliability.
200
This level of measurement puts categories in a certain order.
What is ordinal measurement.
200
Limited versions of the ultimate goal.
What are objectives.
200
This is the backbone of practice evaluation.
What is Single Subject Design.
300
A different explanation for a certain score.
What is Measurement Error.
300
This level of measurement has equal breaks in between.
What is Interval Measurement.
300
These are very specific versions of the ultimate goal.
What are Intermediate Goals.
300
The definition directly from the dictionary.
What is Conceptual Definition.
400
This level of measurement has equal intervals as well as a 0 point.
What is Scale Measurement.
400
There are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time sensitive.
What are SMART goals.
400
This assigns meaning to a variable in terms of the operations necessary to measure it in any concrete situation.
What is Operational Definitions.
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