[...]... common sense and growing research maturity that this overly ambitious approach was quickly recognized as deficient in many aspects and was subjected to penetrating and effective critique in the literature (p 227) 5 6 Developing and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments Consistently driven by their identification with hands-on responses to social problems, caseworkers often led from the heart and favored... (Neuman, 2003, p 9) For educators, the implications were clear and included the development of more and better measurement tools to demonstrate the 7 8 Developing and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments relevance and effectiveness of social work interventions (Strom– Gottfried, 1997) Calls to incorporate training in the use of valid and reliable outcome measures emerged in health-care environments... at capturing any change experienced by the client?” 9 10 Developing and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments SOME KEY CONCEPTS The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (American Educational Research Association et al., 1999), designed to provide criteria for the development and use of measures, defines scales or inventories as instruments measuring attitudes, interests, or dispositions... illustrate 15 16 Developing and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments the processes of clarifying goals—both abstract and substantive—when conceiving and justifying the need for a new measure Having a good idea regarding the information available and the information missing in the literature is essential Knowing how to conceptualize an abstraction, identify its underlying components, and translate them... development, and where will developers find opportunities to integrate or innovate in making final decisions? These and other issues must all be resolved 19 20 Developing and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments early and, adding even more complexity, will be best considered when developers remember the context in which the scale will eventually be applied Putting Things in Context Ultimately, the meanings and. .. Corcoran, 2007b) Practitioners and researchers can browse for rapid assessment instruments organized by unit of analysis (couples, families, and children, or adults) and cross-referenced by problem types ranging from abuse and acculturation through treatment satisfaction and substance abuse In one recent year, entries in a leading journal listed validation studies on new instruments addressing spiritual... are explored, and we overview the inter-relationships of exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic models (EFAs and CFAs, respectively) We describe and detail in applied illustrations the potentials and limitations of EFA and reconsider the underlying significance of theory in guiding construct conceptualization and identification Uni- and multidimensional models are examined using CFA, and we deconstruct... models are examined using CFA, and we deconstruct the 13 14 Developing and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments language of factorial invariance and differential item functioning (DIF) Finally, we examine CFA with categorical measurement indicators and consider the relationship of these techniques to item–response theory (IRT) applications and interpretations In Chapter 7, we tie it all together,... German, and Spanish and had been distributed in 15 countries outside the United States Clearly, the work was underway Responding to practitioners’ concerns that using such measures involved too much time and trouble, Hudson and Nurius (1988) adapted an expanding array of measures for the Clinical Assessment System (CAS) Designed to ease the burdens of administration, scoring, and interpretation of rapid assessment. .. grounding assumptions in valid and reliable evidence Whatever the inspiration, measurement and scaling has become a certified “growth industry,” justifying the call for this book T 3 4 Developing and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments In preparing these materials, we draw liberally on the substantial library of existing works tracing the evolution of psychometric methods and are indebted to the foundation . Galinsky, and Steven H. Day De veloping and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments Neil Abell, David W. Springer, and Akihito Kamata NEIL ABELL DAVID W. SPRINGER AKIHITO KAMATA Developing and Validating R. implications were clear and included the devel- opment of more and better measurement tools to demonstrate the 8 Developing and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments relevance and effectiveness of. 227). 6 Developing and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments Consistently driven by their identification with hands-on responses to social problems, caseworkers often led from the heart and favored education