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Introduction to SSDs
Levels of Measurement
Reliability and Validity
Criteria for Inferring Causality in SSDs
Evaluation Designs
100
The emphasis on evaluation in practice; referring to the use of formal and systematic evaluation methods to help you assess, monitor, and evaluate your cases and inform you and the client about decisions that can be made to improve your results.
What is evaluation-informed practice
100
Provides information about whether one observation is qualitatively different from another person or a person is in one category or another; numbers on football jerseys.
What is nominal?
100
A general term for the consistency of measurements
What is reliability?
100
The changes in the target problem must occur after the application of the intervention, not before. 
What is temporal arrangement?
100
In this design the practitioner decides to return to baseline conditions
What is ABA design? 
200
Referring to clients' concerns, problems, or objectives that have been clearly specified as the focus of our interventive efforts. 
What is target.
200
Has a defined zero point with some intrinsic meaning
What is ratio?
200
Independently measuring the same group of people (or things) with the same measure on two different occasions under the same circumstances. 
What is test-retest reliability?
200
The co-presence of the application of the intervention and the desired change of target problems. 
What is the second criterion for inferring causality?
200
"B", independent variable
What is the intervention? 
300
A reference point, or pattern of points. 
What is baseline. 
300
Ranks order but not to a relative degree of difference.
What is ordinal?
300
The extent to which two or more observers are consistent with each other when they independently observe or judge the same thing. 
What is interobserver reliability?
300
Assessing the several ways in which characteristics of the design can affect conclusions that the intervention may have caused changes in the target. 
What is design validity? 
300
The practitioner adds a final intervention period; terminates on a final intervention phase that is more professionally acceptable.
What is ABAB design? 
400
The actual procedures of measurement; specifying the measurement procedures by defining the target--how often it occurs, in what intensity-- so client and practitioner can be clear about what they are dealing with. 
What is operational definition?
400
Allows for the degree of difference between items, but not the ratio between them. Example is the degree of temperature.
What is interval?
400
The degree to which evidence and theory support the proposed interpretation of scores derived from measures.
What is validity? 
400
The conceptual and practical plausibility that the inference is grounded in scientific/professional knowledge. 
What is the seventh criterion for inferring causality? 
400
"A" dependent variable
What is baseline?
500
This represent's the practitioner's commitment to use all means possible to locate the best (most effective) evidence for any given problem at all points of planning and contacts with clients. 
What is evidence-based practice?
500
The amount of time spent on the computer is an example of this type of measurement.
What is ratio?
500
The extent to which the questions or behaviors selected for measurement are representative or are a biased of limited sample of what you intend to measure. 
What is content validity?
500
The relationship of events-intervention and change in the target- should be maintained over time with no unexpected or unexplained fluctuation in that pattern.
What is consistency over time? 
500
The absence of a true pre-intervention baseline. 
What is BAB design?