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What is assessment?
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The collecting of relevant information in an effort to reach a conclusion.
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Clinical Assessment
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Used to determine how and why a person is behaving abnormally and how that person may be helped.
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Idiographic
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On an individual person.
(also may be used to evaluate treatment progress.)
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Assessment tools
(to be useful)
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Must be standardized and have clear reliability and validity.
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Standardization
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The process in which a test is administered to a large group whose performance serves as a norm against which individual scores are judged.
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Standardization sample
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Must be representative.
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Must standardize-
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Administration, scoring, and interpretation.
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Reliability of assessment tools
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Refers to the consistency of a test.
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A good assessment tool
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Will always yield the same results in the same situation.
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Two main points:
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1) Test-retest reliability
2) Interrater reliability
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Test-retest reliability
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A subject is tested on two different occasions and the scores are correlated(the higher the correlation,the greater the reliability.)
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Interrater reliability
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Different judges independently agree on how to score and interpret a particular test.
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Validity of assessment tools
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Is the accuracy of a test's results.
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A good test
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Must accurately measure what it is supposed to be measuring.
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Three types of validity test:
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1)Face validity
2)Predictive validity
3)Concurrent validity
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