A Reliability Analysis of Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) Weights
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| Title: | A Reliability Analysis of Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) Weights |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Marson, Stephen M., Wei, Guo, Wasserman, Deborah |
| Source: | American Journal of Evaluation. 2009 30(2):203-216. |
| Availability: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
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| Page Count: | 14 |
| Publication Date: | 2009 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Education Level: | Higher Education |
| Descriptors: | Human Services, Scaling, Test Reliability, Interrater Reliability, Psychometrics, Evaluation Methods, Statistical Analysis, Program Effectiveness, College Students |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1098214009334676 |
| ISSN: | 1098-2140 |
| Abstract: | Goal attainment scaling (GAS) has been considered to be one of the most versatile and appealing evaluation protocols available for human services. Aspects of the protocol that make the method so appealing to practitioners--that is, collaboratively working with individual clients to identify and assign weights to goals they will work to achieve--have produced critical psychometric challenges that have threatened the method's acceptance by funders and researchers. This interrater reliability study of weighted goals contributes to their psychometric validation and therefore to the continued use of a methodology so attractive to practitioners. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 34 |
| Entry Date: | 2009 |
| Accession Number: | EJ847864 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Goal attainment scaling (GAS) has been considered to be one of the most versatile and appealing evaluation protocols available for human services. Aspects of the protocol that make the method so appealing to practitioners--that is, collaboratively working with individual clients to identify and assign weights to goals they will work to achieve--have produced critical psychometric challenges that have threatened the method's acceptance by funders and researchers. This interrater reliability study of weighted goals contributes to their psychometric validation and therefore to the continued use of a methodology so attractive to practitioners. |
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| ISSN: | 1098-2140 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1098214009334676 |
