Communimetrics A Communication Theory of Measurement in Human Service Settings /

• Main Author: Lyons, John S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychiatry.; Statistics.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Psychometrics.; Child and School Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Statistics, general.

Measurement in human services means one thing: how well the effort serves clients. But the data doesn’t exist in a vacuum and must be communicated clearly between provider and client, provider and management, and across systems. During the past decade, innovative communimetric measures have helped m...

Table of Contents:

• Measurement in Human Service Enterprises
• Measurement as Communication
• Designing a Communimetric Measure
• Defining a “Good” Communimetric Measurement Tool
• The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths
• The Intermed
• The Entrepreneurial League System Assessment
• The Future of Measurement in Human Services Settings.