Assessment and Diagnosis

Question 1

Event sampling

Answer 1

Observer rates the frequency of the behavior during a set period of time. Appropriate when the target behavior has a clear beginning and ending and does not occur at a very high frequency.

Question 2

Hiltonsmith and Keller’s (1983) framework for organizing data from an ecological assessment

Answer 2

Setting operation, setting opportunities, setting appearance and contents

Question 3

Trinitarian model of validity

Answer 3

Posits that there are three primary components of validity that should be considered: construct validity, content validity, and criterion validity.

Question 4

Kuder–Richardson formula

Answer 4

Formula used to calculate split-half reliability, which is one of several approaches to assessing internal consistency reliability.

Question 5

Item characteristic curve

Answer 5

illustrates increasing proportion of correct answers for an item, at higher levels of ability