Assessment & Evaluation in Therapeutic Recreation Flashcards

The Leisure Competence Measure (LCM) assesses client functioning across eight domains. Which domain addresses a client's ability to make choices and set goals related to leisure?

Answer: Leisure awareness

The Leisure Competence Measure's leisure awareness domain evaluates the client's understanding, attitude, and self-determination related to leisure choices and goal setting.

Which psychometric property indicates how consistently an assessment tool measures the same construct over repeated administrations?

Answer: Reliability

Reliability refers to the consistency of a measurement tool across time, raters, or items.

A CTRS uses a 1–10 Likert scale to measure a client's satisfaction with a TR program at admission and discharge. This is an example of which measurement level?

Answer: Ordinal

Likert scales produce ordinal data because the numbers represent a rank order but the intervals between points are not necessarily equal.

During an evaluation, a CTRS notices a significant discrepancy between a client's self-reported leisure satisfaction and observed engagement. What is the BEST next step?

Answer: Explore the discrepancy through further questioning and additional assessment methods

When discrepancies arise between data sources, further exploration using multiple methods helps the CTRS understand the full picture and improves assessment accuracy.

In the APIE process, assessment findings are used primarily to:

Answer: Plan individualized TR interventions and set measurable goals

Assessment data drives the Planning phase of APIE by identifying client needs, strengths, and baseline function from which individualized goals and interventions are developed.

What does 'content validity' mean in the context of a TR assessment tool?

Answer: The tool adequately covers all relevant aspects of the construct being measured

Content validity ensures the assessment instrument comprehensively samples all important dimensions of the construct it is intended to measure.

A CTRS is selecting an assessment tool for a geriatric population with moderate dementia. Which characteristic is MOST critical when choosing the instrument?

Answer: Brief administration time and observational or simple format

Clients with moderate dementia benefit from brief, observationally based or simplified tools that minimize cognitive demand and reduce response burden.