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How do you
"MEASURE" up?
Know your
"GOALS"
"VALID" Treatments
On the "LEVEL"
"CHARTED" waters
100
This is the translation of vague or inaccurate descriptions into accurate ones
What is Clarity
100
These are the client’s preferences about the future, what they would like to be, do, or would prefer to happen after intervention
What are Ultimate Goals
100
This is the ability to predict an individual’s performance or status of certain outcomes
What is Criterion Validity
100
These are categories that are mutually exclusive, no order: e.g., male/female
What is Nominal level
100
This is two or more events that change together
What is Concomitant variation
200
This refers to something’s ability to be counted, due to frequency or reoccurrence
What is Countability
200
These are limited versions of the ultimate goal
What are Intermediate Goals
200
This predicts, or forecasts, some future criterion (i.e. grades in school)
What is Predictive Validity
200
This level is the same as nominal, but some order: information about the relative amount of one observation compared to another
What is Ordinal Level
200
This type of charting adds each time periods total to the total of the time periods before it
What is Cumulative charting
300
An example of this would be using school records to document a child’s attendance or grades
What is Verifying Sources
300
This individual should have the major, if not sole role in setting goals
Who is the Client
300
This examines the extent to which a measure predicts current performance in a criterion situation
What is Concurrent Validity
300
This level is the same as ordinal, plus the adjacent intervals are equal
What is Interval level
300
This axis represents the target
What is Vertical
400
This is keeping track of the occurrence of the problem
What is Measurability
400
Goals and outcomes refer to this, not the intervention
What are Outcomes
400
An example of this type of validity would be marital satisfaction, child maltreatment
What is Construct Validity
400
This level is the same as interval, plus a defined zero point
What is Ratio level
400
This is any relatively distinct part of the client’s overall program, from first to last contact
What is Phase
500
This is direct identifier that signifies a behavior exists (presence of an alleged performance)
What is Indicator
500
This is one widely used method for establishing and tracking goals, devised by Kiresuk and Sherman in 1968
What is Goal Attainment Scaling
500
This is the degree to which evidence and theory support the proposed interpretation of scores derived from measures
What is Validity
500
An example of this type of level could be rarely or never, some of the time, moderate amount of the time, or most or all of the time
What is Ordinal level
500
These are changes in the intensity of either the intervention or the goals
What is Superscripts