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Peer reviewedKinston, Warren; Loader, Peter – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1988
Describes Family Task Interview (FTI), multiple task interview administered by tape recorder and designed to elicit clinically relevant family interaction. Notes that results from studies conducted to evaluate FTI's validity, reliability, and acceptability suggest the FTI is well-standardized, easily administered instrument for assessment of…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Family Relationship, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Download full textCollege of the Canyons, Valencia, CA. Office of Institutional Development. – 1993
Matriculation regulations in California require that community colleges which adopt standardized placement tests demonstrate that the tests are valid predictors of future course success. A positive correlation of at least .35 between test score and subsequent student performance in a particular course is needed to demonstrate the predictive…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Mathematics Tests, Predictive Validity, Reading Tests
Peer reviewedCiesla, James R.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1993
Data from 6,472 South Carolina residents aged over 55 years support the reliability of S. Katz's Activities of Daily Living scale when data are collected by self-report telephone interview. Results indicate that telephone interview methods are a fast, inexpensive, and safe way to collect data for research and policy formation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Correlation, Daily Living Skills, Data Collection
Thompson, Bruce – 1995
The research literature provides important guidance to counselors working to keep abreast of the latest thinking regarding best practices and recently developed counseling tools. The purpose of this digest is to highlight a few errors that seem to recur within the literature, and to provide some helpful references that further explore these…
Descriptors: Counseling, Educational Researchers, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Mouw, John T.; Perkins, Kyle – 1986
The purpose for which a test is used and the examinees' stage of learning are two anchor points that are incorporated into a suggested framework for conducting construct validation studies for tests of students with English as a second language (ESL) or English as a foreign language (EFL). The framework includes the use of generalizability theory,…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Generalizability Theory
Thompson, Bruce – 1994
Dissertations are an important component of the effort to generate knowledge. Thus, dissertation quality may be seen by accreditation and coordinating-board reviewers as a noteworthy reflection on the quality of doctoral programs themselves. The present study reviews methodological errors within Ph.D. dissertations. The illustrative errors are…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies, Doctoral Dissertations, Error Patterns
