Assessment & treatment
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- Validity:
- Validity: Degree to which a test measures what it says it measures.
- Reliability:
- Reliability: The consistency or stability with which the same event is repeatedly measured.
- Interjudge Reliability:
- Interjudge Reliability: How similarly a client’s performance is scored by two or more judges.
- Intrajudge Reliability:
- Intrajudge Reliability: Consistency with which the same observer measures the same phenomenon on related occasions.
- Nominal Scale:
- Nominal Scale: A category is absent or present.
- Ordinal Scale:
- Ordinal Scale: Numerical scale that can arranges according to rank orders or levels.
- Functional assessment:
- Functional assessment: Evaluates a client’s day to day communication skills.
- Criterion Referenced Testing:
- Criterion Referenced Testing: A form of assessment in which the examiner selects target behaviors to be assessed and uses stimulus materials that are effective for and individualized to the particular client.
- Static Assessment:
- Static Assessment: Measures a client’s performance at one point in time.
- Dynamic Assessment:
- Dynamic Assessment: Measures a client ability to learn over time when provided with instruction. Test-teach-retest.
- Independent Variable:
- Independent Variable: Directly manipulated by the experimenter. Causes changes to the dependant variable.
- Dependant Variable:
- Dependant Variable: Affected by the manipulation of the independent variable. All variables are dependant.
- Public Law 94-142
- "Public Law 94-142 Education of Handicapped Act (1975)/Individuals with Disabilities Act (1990) Mandated free and appropriate education for disabled students from ages 3 -21.
- Public Law 99-457
- "Public Law 99-457