Ch 7 Vocab Part 1

a condition in which many individuals achieve the highest possible score, leaving little to no room to detect improvement

a change that would be regarded by clinicians and the client as meaningful and important

a statistic of inter-rater reliability when the data is categorical in nature

the process of supporting construct validity by finding relationships between the index measure and other measures of the same construct

the ability of a test to measure the construct it is intended to measure

data with values that fall on a continuum from less to more

the process of supporting construct validity by finding relationships between the index measure and other measures of the same construct

a measure in which an individual's scores are compared against some established standard

a measure of internal consistency that ranges from 0.0 to 1.0 and indicates the degree to which the items of a measure are unidemensional

data that can take on only two values; often used to distinguish the presence or nonpresence of some construct

data that can have only certain values. Often used to classify categories into numerical data

the process of supporting construct validity by finding that a test can differentiate between groups of individuals

the process of supporting construct validity by finding that the index measure is not related to measures of irrelevant constructs

the ability of a test to detect change that is clinically meanigful

a situation in which many indiviudals receive the lowest possible score on a test due to its difficulty or the rarity of the condition

unity or similarity of items on a multi-item measure

the ability of a test to detect change

consistence in scores among two ore more testers or raters

a measure of relationships, typically used in reliability studies, that ranges from 0.0 to 1.0 and indicates the degree to which two administrators of a measure are related