Why are validity and reliability important factors to consider?
What will be an ideal response?
• You want to have confidence that the person's results are a true indicator of the construct (the person's interest, skills, values, etc.)
• You want to have confidence that the person's scores will be relatively stable over time, not dramatically different on your next meeting.
• The client is making decisions based off of the results of the inventory. Therefore, it better be a valid and reliable tool.
• You want to make sure that the instrument is appropriate for your client, and without reliability/validity information specific to you're the client's group (gender, ethnicity, and age), there is no ability to know that for certain.
• You will have more confidence in your interventions if you have confidence in the results of the inventory.
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a. speculative. b. assertive. c. conventional. d. challenging. e. confrontive.
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
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