Week 3 Additional information to help with Interactive Case Study

Please review this information to help prepare in answer the questions for the interactive case study.

Case study for Jadine

• Each weekly interactive case study will have several multiple choice questions at the outset. These are automatically graded.

• Choose your answers carefully as some result in negative points.

• So, think carefully before selecting.

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Interactive Case study

• Please see the helpful hints in document sharing as well.

• Once you have completed the quiz then you will need to complete the information that follows that leads to the final project template.

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Introduction – For the final project and any other APA papers

• Please include an introduction to describe for the reader what you will be including in your paper. It is a great way to outline the key requirements and expectations for the assignment. In scholarly writing it is important to include the introduction to provide the reader with a lens for understanding what will be presented in your application paper.

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Purpose and Nature of the Instrument• Stated Purpose

– Use complete sentences. Also, provide more detail about the purposes outlined in the various articles you were to review

• Description of Test, Items, and Scoring – Describe the items and subscales of the assessment.

For example, describe the items and each subscale to demonstrate how items are used to measure the construct. Describe how items are answered and then describe how the items are scored.

• Uses in Counseling – Provide more detail about how the instrument is used

from the various articles you were to review.

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Technical Considerations• Normative sample

– A norm normative sample is selected from the general population to determine what is “normal” in that population. Include information about the sample such as socioeconomic backgrounds, disability statuses, and races etc. to describe the selection process and how participants were selected.

• Reliability – Provide detail of the how reliability was established.

Also provide reliability coefficient. These are measured between zero and 1. A coefficient of 0.9 or more indicates a high degree of reliability.

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Technical Considerations

• Validity – Describe various types of validity (i.e., content,

construct, and criterion-related) that are addressed for the instrument and any threats to validity. Provide the correlation coefficient or Cronbach alpha scores.

• Generalizability – Explain how the results of the study were applied to

larger populations. Otherwise describe limitation that studies found with applied to a larger populations

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More about Validity

• Validity defined: what does the instrument measure and how well it does so

• Informs counselor when it is appropriate to use instrument and what can be inferred from results

• Reliability is a prerequisite for validity

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Validity in our case study

• The initial assessment process with Jadine begins with an intake interview and the mental status examination.

• Questions to ask when you are considering the validity: – Does this instrument have face validity? Does it

appear to measure what it is intended to measure?

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Validity in our case study

• Mental status examination is a brief, organized interview that assesses a client’s emotional, intellectual and neurological functioning.

• The Intake Interview helps us to collect relevant information about a client’s history and background. We can find out about past events and seek to determine whether those events are affecting current events.

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Validity continued

• So, when you are asked about validity in the case study for Jadine, you need to consider which instruments are being used.

• For non-standardized assessments such as the intake interview and/or mental status examination – determining whether these have face validity might help in making a statement about validity.

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Validity of the instrument you are using…

• For all of the instruments that are used with Jadine… reliability and validity information can usually be found on the test developer or test publishers’ website.

• It can also be found in the technical manual for most instruments.

• Checking an instrument’s validity is part of the test selection process.

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Conclusion Paragraph for APA papers and the final project

• A paragraph should be included which summarized what you included in your paper. You should outline the salient points that you have made and include how this information will impact your future practice as a counselor. The conclusion is a way for you to reinforce the points you were attempting to make as well as ensure that you have covered all the expectations for the assignment.

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Reference page

• In a real-world assessment report – references are not included… and there is not a reference page included for the interactive case studies.

• But for the final project – please include the references used.

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Reference page final project• The references should match the sources

listed in the in-text citations. There should not be any references that were not listed in the body of the document as well as none missing that were used in the body of the document. Remember, the word “Reference” should be on the first line of page used for the reference. It should be centered and bold as well.

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Reference page final project

• Please see pages 180-224 in the APA 6th edition manual for extensive details on how to make a reference page. Or, please see the information provided by the writing center in the three following links: (a) Reference List (General) http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/353.htm, (b) Common Reference List Examples http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/36.htm, and (c) Citing Electronic References – Use of doi http://writingcenter.waldenu.edu/355.htm

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