Measurement
Reliability and Validity
Targets of Interventions
100
No ordering is implied
What is Nominal
100
------------is the degree to which a research instrument produces consistent results
What is Reliability
100
When the SW ask the client for concrete examples of the occurrence of the problem
What is Clarity
200
Meaningful zero point.
What is Ratio level of measurement
200
What are the two types of internal consistency reliability?
What is average inter-item correlation and split-half reliability
200
anything that occurs, occurs with some frequency and can be therefore counted”; how often does the problem occur and for how long has it been present?
What is Countability
300
No ordering is implied.
What is Nominal level of measurement
300
------------is how accurate an instrument is at measuring what it's trying to measure
What is validity
300
A way of knowing that the problem in fact exists and a way of documenting when, where and how often it occurs, agency records, school attendance records etc.
What is Verifying sources
400
Distance between attributes do not have any meaning/ rank-ordered.
What is the Ordinal level of measurement.
400
----------is just the researcher's opinion if the items look valid or not.
What is Face validity
400
How other practitioners have measured the same problem?
What is Measurability