Measuring Up: An Introduction to Improving the Meaning of Your Clinical Assessments with Rasch Analysis

PRE-CONFERENCE COURSE
Friday 28 SEPT 2018
8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: Cortez C

DESCRIPTION

This workshop will provide attendees with hands on experience to using Rasch Analysis to examine their assessments from a fresh perspective. Attendees will learn how to read and write a Rasch Analysis program using Winsteps software, read and interpret the output from a Winsteps program, and how to recode a rating scale. Attendees will gain most from the workshop if they come prepared to analyze their own data set, however, the instructor will provide a data set it needed.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Recognize the value and importance of three measurement concepts: hierarchical order, unidimensionality, equal intervals
Evaluate and interpret Rasch Analyis output; discuss how this information can be applied to improving assessment pscyhometrics
Write, run and critique and troubleshoot basic Winsteps programs

ESTEEMED PRESENTERS

Trudy Mallinson, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Associate Professor
The George Washington University

WHY ATTEND?

Access to all conference slides
Access to the speakers for Q&A
Access to the ACRM Community
Network with other like-minded interdisciplinary rehabilitation professionals
Connect with other conference attendees in the APP
CME/CEUs

WHO ATTENDS?

A whole bunch of different job titles find themselves at this top-notch ACRM training course. Usually 1/3 to 1/2 are occupational therapists, followed by speech-language professionals and physicians and plenty of neuropsychologists, RN/rehab nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, educators, social workers, and more.

This training is designed for physicians, researchers and all rehabilitation professionals and family members who care for anyone with brain injury. Here are some common job titles of attendees:

Occupational therapists
Speech-language professionals
Psychologists
Physicians
RN/Rehab Nurses
Disability management specialists
Neuropsychologists
Caregivers of individuals
ALL rehabilitation professionals who want to know the latest evidence-based interventions for cognitive impairment

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

7 hours of continuing education are available with CME/CEUs to the following rehabilitation professionals who attend live training events:

• Case Managers (CCMC)
• Dieticians (CDR)
• Disability Management Specialists (CDMS Commission)
• Health Care Executives (ACHE)
• Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Therapists (NCBTMB)
• Nurses (ANCC)
• Occupational Therapists (AOTA)
• Physicians (ACCME Includes Canada Physicians and Physician Assistants)
• Psychologists (APA Division 22 Accreditation)
• Rehabilitative Counselors (CRCC)
• Social Workers (NASW)
• Speech-Language Professionals (ASHA)
• Physical Therapists (FSBPT and remaining individual States approvals)

See this course in the ACRM conference online program

20% OFF USE CODE nonmember20
ONLY $279 Regular Price $349
OFFER ENDS 27 SEPTEMBER midnight

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