Introduction
Evaluation of an outcome of service
What is Evaluation Informed Practice
Specific object or intervention that is relevant in a given situation
What is a Target?
What the client would like to be
What is an ultimate goal?
A mental image that summarizes a set of similar observations, feelings, or ideas.
What is a concept?
One problem per scale
What is single dimension?
Set of empirical procedures used to observe changes in an identified target that is measured repeatedly over time.
What are single system designs?
To break down complex problems in smaller components
What is to Palatalize?
What are Objectives?
Assign meaning to a variable in terms of the operations necessary to measure it in any concrete situation.
What are operational definitions?
A point on the rating scale that the respondent can select to represent the degree of target's seriousness, intensity, importance, frequency
What is a response category?
Things that a client does, feels or thinks that indicate they may have a problem
What is a problem indicator?
How often does the problem occur and for how long has it been present?
What is Countability?
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time Sensitive.
SMART goals
The extent to which a measure contains random measurement error.
What is Reliability?
Behaviors, thoughts and feelings that client would be experiencing at each point on the scale.
What are anchors?
Planned changes when practitioner performs certain actions in order to reach specific objectives of practice.
What is the Intervention Phase?
A way of knowing that the problem in fact exists
What is verifying sources?
If that change could not have happened by choice alone it is....
Statistically significant.
The attributes are rank-ordered
What are ordinal levels of measurement?
Self-report measures, filled out by the client
What are rapid assessment instruments?
Clients deserve to be provided with the most effective interventions.
What is Ideology?
How other practitioners have measured the same problem?
What is Measurability?
The extent to which a measure contains systematic measurement error.
What is Validity?