General knowledge 1
History, maturation, testing, instrumentation and statistical regression
What are the threats to internal validity ?
Intervention only
What is the B design ?
A design for practice that would reflect your use of evidence based practice .
what is practice design?
Defines another word or set of words.
What is a conceptual definition ?
This means that one measurement doesn't influence another measurement.
What is independence?
1.A relationship must exist between the two variables. 2.The relationship must be non spurious. 3. There should be a time interval between independent variable and dependent one.
What are the three conditions that must be established before we call a relationship causal?
Two face design consisting of a no intervention baseline phase and an intervention phase. This allows for the establishment of a relationship between intervention and outcome
A design used to describe how practitioners plan to monitor the progress and evaluate the outcome of the practice design.
What is evaluation design?
This assigns meaning to a concept in terms of the activities or operations necessary to measure it.
What is operational definition ?
Independent of people or things with the same measure on two different occasions under the same circumstances .
What is test retest reliability ?
Purposely implemented change strategies.
What are interventions?
A three-phase design in which there is no intervention baseline phase, intervention phase oh, and no intervention withdrawal phase
What is aba design ?
The planned comparison of an intervention. with a non intervention.
What is the key distinguishing characteristic of single system designs ?
A general term for the consistency of measurements.
What is reliability?
refers to the opinion by the developer of a measure, buy some expert, or buy you, that an instrument measures what it intends to measure.
What is face validity?
Frequency, duration, and interval counts.
What are three basic ways of measuring behavior?
This design should not be used to make casual inferences.
What is b design /
In order to be considered this, it must be observable and measurable by someone.
What is behavior?
inconsistency due to random measurement error
What is unreliability?
The degree to which evidence and theory support this proposed interpretation of scores derived from the measures.
what is validity
These are tailor-made for each client and situation as the need arises, to measure whatever has been identified as important targets, along whatever dimension seems most appropriate to a particular target.
What is individualized rating scale
An analysis of expressive movement, including smiles, frowns, and gestures.
What is an example of unobtrusive observation ?
Refers to uniformity of procedures when administering and scoring a measure and it implies the availability of existing data concerning the validity and reliability of the measure.
what is standardization?
This refers to the extent to which the questions or behaviors selected for measurement or representative or are a biased or limited sample of what you intended to measure
What is content validity?
This refers to its ability to predict an individual's performance or status on certain outcomes .
What is criterion validity?