Week 01
Evaluation of an outcome of service
What is evaluation informed practice?
The process of specifying what we mean by a term
The accuracy of the instrument
What is validity?
What is a standardized measure?
A single phase design SSD that focuses on the intervention only.
What is the B design?
Set of empirical procedures used to observe changes in an identified target that is measured repeatedly over time.
What is single system designs?
The definition that you can find in a dictionary, describing a concept by using one set of words, like synonyms.
What is the conceptual definition?
The degree to which a research instrument produces consistent results.
What is reliability?
The client administers the questionnaire to themselves without the help of a practitioner.
What is a self-report measure?
A two phase SSD that has a baseline phase and an intervention phase.
What is the AB design?
This is the non-intervention phase
What is the baseline?
The "working" definitions of what you are trying to measure.
Face, content, construct, and criterion related.
What are the types of validity?
I am easy to use, accessible, and relevant to intervention planning.
What is utility?
A three phase SSD that goes from baseline, to intervention, back to baseline.
What is the ABA or Basic Withdrawal design?
The heart of all SSD's
What is repeated measures?
A concept can be defined as a mental image that summarizes a set of similar observations, feelings, or ideas.
What is a concept?
Test-retest, parallel, internal consistency, and inter-rater.
What are the types of reliability?
This is something people do that is measurable and countable.
What is behavior?
What is the BAB design?
Utilizing/locating the most effective intervention possible for the problem at hand
What is evidence based practice?
A tool used with different client systems to reflect clients change over time.
What is an individual rating scale?
These are portable and non-obtrusive research measures.
What are observational measures?
This must exist between the two variables being measured, must be non-spurious, and there should be a time interval between the dependent and independent variables.
What is a causal relationship?