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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