Research Design & Professional Issues

Developmental research is the same as normative research.

Experiment first explain later is an example of:

______ is an experimental design that focuses on the individual performance of a few participants.

SLPAs should administer standardized tests.

Increased federal support for services to disabled children 3-6 and provided finding to infants and toddlers:

Public Law 94-142 mandates free and appropriate education for disabled adults ages 21 and over.

What does ESSA stand for?

Telepractice venues include all of the following EXCEPT:

Which is not an advantage of a single-subject design?

Test-retest reliability is based on the consistency when 2 parallel forms of the same tests are given to the same ppl.

The highest level of evidence supporting a treatment procedure comes from:

What is the accuracy with which a measure predicts future performance on related tasks?

Which class is based on expert opinion and case studies?

_____ is the degree to which measures are consistent with theoretical constructs or concepts.

Validity is the degree to which an instrument measures what it is purported to measure:

What type of reliability is a measure of internal consistency of a test?

True or false: the deductive method is an explain-first-and-verify-later approach.

Which type of validity is the degree to which measures are consistent with theoretical constructs or concepts?

True or false? Intrajudge reliability refers to the extent to which two or more observers agree in measuring an event. 

The philosophical position that statements must be supported by experimental or observational evidence:

What states that two variables are not related?

Predictive validity is also called _______________.

Degree to which a new measure correlates with an established measure of known validity.

True or false: predictive validity is the same thing as criterion validity.

Government’s 1st major step toward involvement in a widespread program of medical assistance to the population at large:

Refers to the problem of losing participants over the course of an experiment, affecting the final results of the study.

The extent to which scores deviate from the mean:

The terms speech-language pathologist, speech therapist, and speech-language clinician can be used interchangeably.

The extent to which two or more observers agree in measuring an event:

Which law created a new program that provided funds for services to infants and toddlers?

An experimental design involving only a few participants and focusing on individual performance would be called a:

Law states that disabled children from ages 3-21 are guaranteed free and appropriate public education in the LRE:

_________ reliability refers to the extent to which two or more observers agree in measuring an event:

True or false: attrition refers to biological and other kinds of changes within participants themselves.

What are the measures of central tendency?

Variations of a multiple-baseline research design include:

Which of the following is a subcategory of validity: