Assessment, Research, & Evidence Based Practice

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What is internal validity?

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How well a study is testing what it claims to be testing

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What is external validity?

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How well the results of a study are generalizable

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Research studies can be categorized broadly into what three areas?

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Quantitative, qualitative, or a combination of the two (mixed methods)

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What are typical MAIN SECTIONS in research articles?

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Review of literature, methods, results, discussion

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Which term refers to how well a test detects that a condition is present when the condition actually is present? Options: Significance, Stability, Specificity, Sensitivity

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Sensitivity

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What p value is typically accepted as indicating significance?

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<0.05

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Among the traditional and alternative assessment approaches, the one that requires the clinician to offer some treatment before making a full diagnosis and test again to make a final decision is known as

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dynamic assessment

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Baselines

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help establish the initial (natural) level of clients' behavior

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A clinician in a hospital setting is informed that insurance companies have begun to demand specific evidence that the clients with neurologically based disorders are taught functional communication skills. These skills are ___.

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behaviors that promote communication in natural settings

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A clinician administers the Language Achievement Test (LAT) to Brett, who is described as "low" in oral and written language skills. On LAT, Brett's overall score falls in the 25th percentile rank. This means that ___.

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75% of the children in the LAT's normative sample did better than Brett.