Levels of measurment
Practice Evaluation
Validity
Standardized Measures
Interventions
100
Four layers of measurment
What are nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.
100
Evaluation of an outcome of service. Also use of formal and systematic evaluation methods to help the SW assess, monitor, and evaluate cases and inform the practitioner and the client about decisions of practice that could be made to improve results through the eyes of the clients.
What is Evaluation informed practice?
100
Is the measure measuring what it is supposed to measure as opposed to something else.
What is Validity?
100
Have uniform procedures for administration and scoring.
What is Standardized Measures?
100
Purposely implemented change strategies
What is Interventions?
200
NOMINAL meaning
What is absolute zero?
200
A Set of empirical procedures used to observe changes in an identified target that is measured repeatedly over time.
What is Single system Design?
200
Face validity, Content validity, Construct validity, and Criterion related validity.
What is the different types of validity?
200
Provides numerical score for estimating the magnitude, intensity or degree of client’s problem. often times they indicate clinical cutoffs, they are published, have to be cited in your papers and are cited in the professional literature.
What is how standardized measurements are used?
200
Narratives, Videotapes, Audiotapes, and new computer applications.
What is Methodologies for Describing Interventions?
300
Description of Ordinal
What is distance is meaningful?
300
1. Develop a question 2. Find the evidence 3. Analyze the evidence 4. Combine evidence understanding of client’s situation 5. Application to practice 6. Monitor and evaluate results
What is steps in evidence based practice?
300
When researchers simply look at the items included in an instrument and give their opinion if the items appear to accurately measure what they are supposed to measure.
What is Face validity?
300
Purpose of the measure, how to interpret results whether it is Validity or reliability, and norms for comparison of individual scores with scores of groups.
What is Psychometric Properties?
300
Basic characteristics of client and client problem, of practitioner and agency, including any other practitioners and agencies involved in the intervention.
What is Components of a fully specified intervention?
400
Description of Interval
What is attributes can be ordered?
400
Uses the results of research and evaluation to select interventions that have evidence of effectiveness.
What is The scientific practitioner?
400
How well an instrument covers the range of meanings included within a concept that is being measured.
What is Content validity?
400
Client (self-reports), Significant others, or Practitioner.
What is those able to administer standardized measures?
400
A relationship must exist between the two variables. The relationship must be non-spurious. There should be a time interval between one variable and the other.
What is Causality in Single Subject Designs?
500
Description of Ratio
What is attributes are only names: weakest?
500
A phase: time period during which a particular activity occurs
What is Baseline and intervention phases?
500
Whether our instrument predicts or forecasts accurately some sort of outcome/external variable.
What is Criterion-Related Validity?
500
Self-report measures, filled out by client.
What is Rapid Assessment Instruments?
500
B (Intervention Only) Design, AB (Baseline And Intervention) Design, and ABA (Basic Withdrawal) Design.
What is Three basic single case designs?