Chapter 3. How to judge the quality of an outcome measure

[From book: “Outcome Measures and Evaluation in Counselling and Psychotherapy“]

Headings

• GENERALISABILITY, USABILITY, LINGUISTICS/CULTURE AND PSYCHOMETRICS
  • GULP: Generalisability
    • Content and response systems
    • Audience
    • Don’t make changes to a measure!
  • GULP: Usability
  • GULP: Linguistic and cultural location
  • GULP: Psychometrics
    • Moving from epistemology to the psychometric exploration of measures
  • Reliability
    • Internal reliability
    • Test-retest reliability
    • Inter-rater reliability
  • Validity
    • No validity without reliability
    • From face validity to content validity
    • Sensitivity to change
    • Validity and audience
  • Shall I just invent my own measure? Stop! Don’t do it! Don’t jump!
    • What about ‘single study’ measures?
• FORMAT

[Created 20/5/21, last updated (tweaks) 6/10/22.]

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