PRAISES
Single System Designs
Levels of measurement
Validity
RAI'S
100

1) Evaluate the context

2) Process the Referral

3) Initiate Contact

4) Structure

What is PRe-Intervention
100
Set of empirical procedures used to observe changes in an identified target that is measured repeatedly over time
What is a Single System Design?
100
Whether one observation is qualitatively different from another
What is nominal level?
100
If reliability is the consistency of an instrument, the _________ is the accuracy of that instrument
What is validity?
100
Rapid Assessment Instruments
What is RAI?
200

Stabilize and generalize changes

Plan and implement termination and follow up

What is Stabilize?
200
Not attached ot any particular theory or intervention
What is theory independent/theory neutral?
200
Same information as interval-level measures, plus they have a defined zero point that has some intrinsic meaning?
What is Ratio Level?
200
Simply looking at the items included in an instrument and give your opinion if the items appear to accurately measure what they are supposed to measure. 
What is Face Validity?
200
Efficiency, accessibility, disclosure, comparability and neutrality 
What are Advantages of RAI's?
300

Develop intervention plan

develop evaluation plan

Negotiate contract

Prepare for intervention

Implement intervention

What is Intervention?
300
Define the _______ and specify the _______ of intervention.
What is problem and target?
300
Same information as nominal level plus information about the relative amount of one observation compared with another
What is Ordinal level?
300
Whether our instrument predicts or forecasts accurately some sort of outcome/external variable?
What is Criterion-Related Validity?
300
Psychometric, Practical, Agency disadvantages
What are disadvantages of RAI's?
400

Select problem

Conduct assessment

Collect baseline information

Establish goals

What is Assessment?
400
B only, AB, ABA, BAB, and ABAB 
What are select evaluation designs? 
400
Same information as ordinal-level measures, plus the adjacent intervals are equal
What is interval level?
400
Both convergent validity and discriminant validity are part of this primary validity
What is Construct Validity?
400
Can be rapidly _______, often in the presence of the client
What is scored?
500

Monitor and evaluate results

Assess and overcome barriers

Evaluate goal achievement

What is Systematic Evaluation?
500
Decision making on the basis of __________
What are findings?
500
It allows you to be more precise and systematic in evaluating what you are doing
What is the value of measurement?
500
How well an instrument covers the range of meanings including within a concept that is being measured.
What is Content Validity?
500
The overall score provides an index of the degree of the client's ___________
What is problems?