The OP provided 6 12 sessions of a standardised problem-solving treatment; the worker was also given a guided self-help manual.
A qualitative assessment is likely to be not as efficient in evaluating robustness as a quantitative, standardised assessment, given the problem of linguistic ambiguity and subjectivity of the assessment method.
Most measures used to detect problems, such as standardised mortality rates, are 'lagging indicators' revealing problems after they have happened.
The experience reinforced a lot of the things I'd been thinking about in education, particularly the problems with standardised, high-stakes testing.
In social care, however, we have seen this result in an over-reliance on block contracts, zero-hour contracts, problems of standardised services, poor quality provision and the damaging collapse of major providers like Southern Cross.
These figures are roughly in line with the conclusions of other studies, though they have the advantage of using standardised data, thereby minimising problems of definition that usually bedevil cross-country comparisons.The biggest finding of the studies is not, however, about overall social mobility, but about mobility at the bottom.
While optimisation has made an enormous contribution to airline planning in general, the area suffers from a lack of standardised data and benchmark problems.
Children who presented with new medical problems underwent standardised medical evaluation.
In addition, we used a standardised measure of alcohol problems to establish level of drinking among participants, which further strengthened validity and triangulation of qualitative data.
Saatchi insists that the problem is the standardised response.
It is vital to document this problem – gathering crucial, standardised and harmonised data – if we are to understand its scale.
